Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Aussie Catching Inland Taipan On Roller Skates" video.

  1. Inspite of everything seen, it is most stringently suggested that such snake handling is left very much to well practice snake handlers and in remote places like this with NO medical facilities within day or minimum many hours, should only be done with supply of antigens on hand and with several people. NOT ON YOUR OWN OR NO ON SITE MEDICAL SUPPORT. Otherwise likely is a final resting place.
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  2. You could spend weeks and not find a snake at all. But observation quickly can reveal snakes present especially morning, as their sliding trails are quite visible in sand and powdery dust. Not to say they are sparse either. Camping as a group of 3 travelling 4WDs in the Simpson Desert over 750 km crossing hundreds of sandunes and wide clay basins/ lakes if recent rain. One morning coming from my little 2 person tent there within say 10 ft were three slither trails in the sand so likely three snakes had passed by during the night. Maybe two snakes and one had gone both ways as two trails were about same size snake and one a little smaller, yet length would have exceeded 3 ft of each. Very glad of fully sealed tent floor. Other evidence of wildlife, in the vicinity of camp that night, and not uncommon. Lots of beetle tracks, scorpion trails lizard tracks, even about 100 yds away two camels had passed. The evening before as the group were talking around a camp fire, after dinner. I had picked up very low level sounds in the near shadows. Listen very carefully for some 10 minutes, before flashing on my torch to what I thought the sound source. There stood a single Dingo in mid torch beam Startled it stood still for many seconds before turning and running over a near low level dune between larger dunes beside our camp in the flat area between dunes, camping only some 30ft from the cross desert track. It is only permitted to go a very short distance either side of the official track with vehicles. Heavy fines are incurred departing the official track, no driving random new paths across the desert East-west tracks (two ways over part of the trip) and one mid desert track heading sort of northerly to ultimately link to tracks in Alice Spring are the only permitted ways by vehicles. Though several clapans and a fewvplaces for practicle reasons there are forks and branches in the track, at clay pans/Lakes there are often long bypass around these as when wet of especially full of water, there is no driving across. Many vehicles get seriously bogged, ne e ding digging and winching, often leaving dug out holes size of several car capacity garages on the dry or drying clay. That northerly track requires permits issued by Aboriginal tribal council. Our application was being issued in Alice Springs and while being typed, a tribal elder half drunk came by and rejected approval. Cost us extra 1600km travel to get into the Simpson Desert for our East-west trip. Daytime we saw several more camels, lots of kangaroos, a number of EMUs numerous birds. I caught a 2ft long Goanna (monitor lizard), saw other smaller lizards but unusually saw no actual snakes over 5 days in the desert, only the slither paths where some snake had crawled. Caught a couple scorpions too and some interesting beetles, like staghorn or ones with big horns up front. Also as some recent rains had been over the area numerous plants were in flower, with butterflies in numbers too. All animals released unharmdd
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