one thing I loved about VT was no poisonous snakes.
It seems a majority of snakes in Australia are venomous! Most are not naturally vicious though. My wife stepped on a Brown once - just flicking it with her shoe - the snake just gave her a nasty look and kept on going. She did not see it and got jelly legs when I told her what had just happened. We were bushwalking once when one came down the side of the hill onto the track just as I was taking a step. I froze my step in mid air and as it went under my leg it turned it’s head and looked me in the eye LOL.