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The safety of bushwalking

 

Vincent Serventy is right (Peninsula News, March 12).

Bushwalking is 100 per cent safer than the roads.

Human behaviour on the roads is just a bit below warfare and gangs.

Though I must admit that, on one occasion at Cowan, while bushwalking, I forged ahead alone.

I suddenly came to a stop, for before me was a tiger snake as big as a house.

I froze and very slowly tip-toed backwards, till I was well away.

I said to the others: "Don't go there. There's the grandfather of tiger snakes just around the corner and I'm going on another bushwalk."

"Where?" they asked.

"The Bayview," I replied.

Keith Whitfield Woy Woy