Alluring and mildly misleading title aside, there was virtually nothing sexy about the lubricated tête-à-tête diver Rick Trippe recently stumbled across in Darwin Harbour.
This prime example of some Cold War mutually assured destruction type ‘o shite was caught on film by one of Trippe’s mates while they were out ‘sploring a WWII wreck.
“I asked my mate to take a couple of photos, he wasn’t too keen but he took them – the snake had the stonefish locked in its mouth,” said Trippe.
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Figure 1 is:
a) A visual and philosophical exploration of nature’s redesign and the ethical significance of human intervention within the natural environment.
b) fuk’n rank as.
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The Trippe continued: “I know sea snakes are dangerous, so I grabbed it carefully and pulled the stonefish out of its mouth.”
And then apparently the mean old sea snake [Ed Note: conjecture] came back around at the juicy looking [Ed Note: leading the witness] stonefish – “I could hear the fish croaking so I let them both go, but the snake made a beeline back to the fish” – so he “just left them be.”
“I don’t think it would have ended up very well for either of them,” he said. “In decades of spearfishing on the harbour, I’ve probably only seen four or five sea snakes and I’ve never seen one doing anything like this… I’m very careful, snakes are deadly, but they generally don’t bother people, they just come up to take a breath.”
Stonefish v Snake joins such memorable moments in Australian flora and fauna-cum-pop culture articles as Tourist Photographs A Crocodile Named Brutus Eating A Shark, This Photo of A Snake Eating A Crocodile Is The Most Terrifying Australian Thing Ever and R.I.P. You After Looking At This Photo Of A Redback Spider Killing A Brown Snake.
And please do remember, if you ever see any nasty ass David Attenborough x Kodak moments in the wild, drop us a line on feedback@pedestriangroup.com.au
via NT News.
