Snakes Alive

"The water looks pretty muddy,"  Hans said to me as we looked around Kangaroo Lake where I had hoped to go swimming.

It was a warm morning and I was in my bathing suit.  But Hans was right, the water was completely opaque and brown and not at all inviting, so we just lingered at a picnic table for awhile and took a break.

Later that evening at our new hosts' home in Mooroopna, I mentioned my disappointment at not being able to go swimming earlier that day.

"Well, the lake would have been full of snakes from the flood," said Stuart.

Oh.  Suddenly, I wasn't so disappointed at all.