Australia’s reputation as bold and fearless receives shot in arm as surfer allows venomous sea snake onto his board: “This time of year they become very active, sexually frustrated and potentially aggressive!”

That's not a sea snake. This is a sea snake.

Australia, my second home, my self-identified nationality, has been battered and bruised under crushing new pandemic lockdown measures. Punished. Once bold Australians allowed outside of homes or apartments for only one hour of exercise a day. Restaurants, bars, gyms shuttered. No travel, no socializing. All concentration paid to staying safe.

Oh this flies very much against the Lucky Country’s devil-may-care reputation.

Sydney was founded, did you know, when a ship carrying convicts and a ship carrying prostitutes crashed on its fatal shore. Instead of building stick forts and quarantining, the two groups had an orgy.

Crocodile Dundee is Australian.

Steve Irwin forever too.

And now, when needed most, a new savior has appeared.

Brodie Moss, a YouTuber maybe, recently filmed a venomous sea snake crawl upon his standup paddle board, posting the clip to Instagram and writing:

Sea snakes normally avoid humans but this time of year they become very active, sexually frustrated and potentially aggressive as they search for a mate like this old fella who appeared from the ocean floor and followed me around on my paddle board before disappearing.

Barstool Sports was one of many U.S. outlets that could not believe the brazen, writing Australians Fear Absolutely Nothing: Surfer Let’s A Horny And Venomous Sea Snake Slither Onto His Surfboard.

The author, while wrong about the craft being a surfboard, was correctly amazed, recounted Moss’s story then added, “Australians are a different breed. In 2019, I got the chance to end down under and had the time of my life. Aussies are probably my favorite people on planet Earth, but they’ll never cease to amaze me with their attitude of being one with nature.”

A shot in the arm indeed.