As Jake left for work the other day we heard a big shriek - “Wendy, get out here NOW!!!” . So I rushed out to the garden and I too stopped still in fright!
With life in Alice Springs still fresh in our minds, Jake and I had stumbled across something on the garden path which we believed to be a baby snake.
Holding the kids back, I gathered my thoughts together and reminded myself that New Zealand has no snakes. There are no snakes here. Snakes do not appear on garden paths in Wellington. It cannot be a snake.
And no. It wasn’t a snake – it was a giant worm! Like, a ridiculously giant worm, probably a good 30 to 40 cms long.
And stripey.
How I’ve managed to not see this type of creature before I don’t know, because I’ve since discovered that giant worms are not uncommon in NZ and there’s even one which lives in North Auckland that grows to 4 ft 6 inches – nearly as big as me, now there’s a good reason not to move back to Mairangi Bay!
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