Todays Visitor

[KieranR]

We get a few every year at home ranging from the venemous browns and taipans to tree snakes and the pythons, came across this fella a few months back on my driveway.

[Snapman007]

^^^ my guess would be that it's a friendly.



Good chance I'll die from a snake bite though lol.

[Rumpig]

we seem to have a new resident in the yard....it was back yesterday arvo, this morning, and this afternoon again. been trying to get some good close up pics, but it seems to like the spot behind the wire fence, so not having much luck getting any closer then about a metre and half from it....  i need a bigger zoom lense

[oldmate]

Don't we all mate. Lol

[Rumpig]

here's todays pic that i took this morning, just needed it to stick the tounge out...lol...the one time it did that this morning my pic was out of focus  .....

[booga]

There's a bloke does traveling snake shows. Part of his spiel is...venomus snakes have 3 tiny dots on the top of their head, but who's going to get close enough to count them?   

The best thing to do is to just leave them alone if you come across one. The majority of snake bites are from people trying to kill them!

Funny you say that as last year just before we went on a trip to Moreton island a snake guy was at our mall and the kids took alot of intrest in what he had to say (if only they listened to me) anyway we ended up buying a snake survival kit from him, basically a streachy bandage.

So the next week we went on our trip and this one late afternoon the kids and I were walking down to the water to watch the sunset from Ben-Ewa campground and as we crossed the "bridge" my kids yelled out "Dad it's a Redbelly Black" I was like how the hell did you guys remember that from a 2min show a week ago - sure enough this rather large RBB crossed inbetween myself and my kids, they knew from the show to stay perfectly still and let him go about his business which he did.

[evans52]

Living in the Mid-North of SA I cleaned up the backyard on the weekend to avoid the potential for snakes now it's getting hotter. (Brown Snakes and Red Bellied) Plus it also gave room for The Boy to do "circle work" on his sisters Quad. As I was cleaning, I saw a Blue Tounged lizard. Picked it up and showed the 2 kids. They were intrigued and had a pat. I let it go in next doors yard. Nice long grass and no dogs. Then later on I had a chat with them about snakes. The very first response was "pick it up and pat it". Fearless kids, but a lot to learn. They now know to turn and walk away.