In Australia, a python terrorizes tourists on a popular walking route (6 photos + 1 video)

One hiker almost lost an eye, becoming already the third victim of an embittered python, zealously defending its territory.





Joel Herrington enjoyed walking the popular trail in Behan Gorge in northern Queensland, Australia, when I noticed python on a tree and tried to photograph it. However, the reptile is here she pounced on him and bit him. Herrington later compared the shooter to kick with a sharp slap in the face.



He posted pictures of his bloodied face traces of fangs on the forehead and above the left ear - the pictures clearly show that between the places where the lower and upper fangs of the snake were stuck, at least 15 centimeters. And grab the python a couple of centimeters to the right, a man for sure would be left without an eye.



Herrington was the third victim of this attack. amethyst python, in connection with which the Department of the Environment Queensland has issued a warning to tourists and urged them not to photograph a reptile.



Herrington was walking down the trail with friends when he noticed on a large python tree. He pointed his phone camera at a 2.5-meter the snake as it slid down the branch towards him.

“Beautiful snake right above the trail in Behan,” says Herrington is on video through the roar of the waterfall, unaware that she is insidious the reptile waits for the best moment to strike. When Herrington bent down to pick up the plastic bottles he had dropped, the python took advantage of the chance.

“I bent down to pick them up, and as I straightened up, he hit me in the face. The feeling was that someone slapped me in the face, and I fell off a cliff,” he told Courier Mail.

Immediately from the place above the left eye, where the fangs stuck snakes, "an alarming amount of blood" gushed out. "Blood eventually spurted out of my head at a 90 degree angle,” Herrington wrote in a post on the Cairns hiking Facebook page.

Herrington, who keeps a python himself, described the snake as unusually "territorial". He posted photos and videos on page, after which another local resident reported: “My friend two weeks ago I was also bitten in the head in the same place.” Later it became known about another case involving this python - he scared the elderly woman, causing her to fall off the slope.



Herrington wrote in the same community that the snake is apparently mistook him for a bird: “I think that he was waiting for a bird and was confused when I passed by".

A spokesman for the Department of Environment and Science stated, that his rangers met tourists "invading privacy snake space to photograph them." He warned that when meeting with a snake, you must keep your distance. snakes usually attack only when they feel vulnerable or in danger.