The snakes here in Australia generally leave you alone unless they feel threatened. There were plenty of brown snakes around where I lived when I was growing up and never had any issues with them.
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I nearly stepped on the head of an Eastern Brown when I was seven. Poor thing was sunbathing (morning coffee for snakes) and didn't hear me coming.
It totally freaked and took off like a bolt of brown lightning, was still going at a fast clip when it went over the top of the hill in the next paddock.
Browns are cool. World #2 for venom, but they don't start fights with anything larger than a rat.
Tiger snakes, OTOH, especially big females, be like "you looking at me, #%&£? YOU LOOKING AT ME!??".
No, I'm not looking at you, in fact I think I'll take a different path after all...
