I had an interesting experience while fishing last weekend with snake identification.
Son said He saw a brown snake drop off the riverbank near where we were in our boat. As it started to then swim toward us, I saw dark stripes on it's 1.5m+ side and thought sh1t - tiger snake!!!
As I was wrestling it away from coming on board the back of our boat using the long handled landing net, I clearly saw the diamond pattern on it's back and thought Ok, maybe diamond python?
Everyone nearby roared with laughter watching me wrestle a 1.5m snake of whatever kind away from the back of my boat.
Took a few minutes but I won eventually and it swam off to the other bank, while I then changed my boxers.
Moral to story? Not sure, just lucky that son saw it fall in the first place as it could have easily snuck up and in the boat before we realised-----------