Twice bitten: The unyielding snake rescuer’s tale | The Canberra Times

“After being bitten by the black snake and losing my sense of smell, I couldn’t really smell anything. Maybe I could smell if someone was cooking onions and garlic, but I couldn’t really smell anything specific,” he said, sitting in a park in Queanbeyan with Layla, his Murray-Darling carpet python, happily wrapped around his neck.