However, the Good Book tells us there are serpents in paradise. In fact, there appears to be a number of stray snakes on the island . Five snake calls were made in recent weeks .
One was for a death adder near the Arcadia Hotel which boasts cane toad races. It was a skinny looking serpent and may have been attracted by the scent of galloping cane toads.
It was scooped up, carried away in a box and released in the high country , so mountain climbers be on the look out .
Our Shipping Reporter says the island ferry Sunbird is undergoing what appears to be open heart surgery (not picked up by the mainland media ) after mechanical trouble, a vital replacement organ coming from Germany.
Mild mannered Melbourne political commentator Pete Steedman ,a certainty to be a regular on the heavenly ABC Radio National God Forbid show, because of his vast knowledge of the Bible, has forwarded a fire and brimstone illustrated sermon on ScoMo, exposing the old loaves and the fishes scam over the Murray-Darling environmental disaster and the fancy footwork in the wilderness before the last election which would have bought a swag of gold medals at the Berlin Olympics .