On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:20:03 GMT, "Jock"
wrote:

For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your
doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never
see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory.
Make sure the salt is fine and not rock salt, the snakes can be injured by
the rock salt.
Jock


I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch
snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. Mostly carpet snakes
(pythons) but they certainly spent a lot of time sunning themselves
around beach areas. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool
on several occasions.

Tony