Family vacations are almost always marked by one surprise or another. Maybe it’s a delayed flight or an unexpected sickness. It's sometimes the simple fact that your kids are just not as excited about the trip as you thought they would be, leading to your own disappointment.
Either way, the best way to handle the ups and downs of family travel are to try to remain calm and just roll with the punches. But this was impossible when an Australian family discovered a slithery creature in their car's air-conditioning unit while on a road trip.
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'I think there’s a snake in the car, and it just tried to bite me,' the father said.
An Australian man and his family were driving along in Queensland when the father suddenly suddenly jumped, Lily Divine, the man’s daughter, told 7 News. The dad pulled the car over on the side of the road. Then he told his family, “I think there’s a snake in the car, and it just tried to bite me.”
The family hopped out of the car and waited for five minutes, hoping the snake would exit the vehicle, too.
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The family couldn't get the snake to leave the car.
The creature poked its head out of the driver’s side air-conditioning vent. "Everyone started freaking out," Divine said. “We saw it come out of the vent, but it moved somewhere else in the car we couldn’t get to.”
The family believe the snake got in the car through a door that was left open overnight. Unable to reach the snake, the family drove, on edge, for another 20 minutes until they reached their home.
Thankfully, the snake left that night.
When they parked, they left one of the car windows open, hoping that the snake would make its escape overnight. “By morning, it was gone,” Divine said. The family believe it was a green tree snake that was about 3 feet long. Not the type of travel companion you’d want.
These snakes are common in Australia.
These types of snake are common in many parts of Australia, the New York Post reported. While the family might not have been comfortable with the reptile riding along, these snakes are not venomous and aren’t typically dangerous to humans.
This is not the first time a snake has tried to crash a family road trip. In 2021, Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers, an Australian snake-catching service, found a snake hiding in the same spot in another vehicle.
