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    Default Off Thread: I think it's going to be a wet summer

    I thought I'd include a pic of the largest of three snakes: Amethystine Pythons that I've had to evict from the house in the last three months. It's a vaguely metalwork related photo as I'm wearing welding gloves to protect from whatever smelly stuff the snakes eject when captured.

    The snakes seem to be searching for high ground, which is what my small block passes for in coastal beach flat land and there haven't been snakes like this since about 1976-77 when we had two cyclones at once off the coast. It's also been a wet winter which kept the mangoes off the trees which is another old timer's sign of a bad cyclone season. I'd better get up and finish the roof repairs.
    Last edited by DJ’s Timber; 12th Nov 2010 at 11:03 PM. Reason: Remove inserted image due to being oversize

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    That's a big one, I take it your not keeping it for a pet then. LOL

    Dave

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    Ha ha, love the photo. thats a real impressive snake!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave J View Post
    That's a big one, I take it your not keeping it for a pet then. LOL

    Dave
    Heh!, it's as round as my leg calf muscle at it's thickest point. The photo doesn't show that I had to jog backwards for over 500 metres to stop it from swinging back on itself to wrap around me, all the time I had to keep getting a fresh grip on it's tail as it had a peristalsis motion going which loosens your grip constantly, phew!. Then there's the characteristic big snake stink.

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    Nice photo Graziano. If I'd been there the characteristic big snake stink may not have been coming from the snake at all.
    They don't grow them that big down here, pisonous maybe but not that big lol
    Stuart

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    We call them Carpet snakes here... Usually enter the house looking for frogs... We get the odd Black headed python as well...

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    A Couple more snake tales from around Cairns (one even on topic...sort of)

    Snake Tale 1

    A few years ago my wife decided to get something out of the car at 3 A.M - heaven knows why.....

    Some time earlier in the night a python the same type as in Mark's photo but of less heroic proportions - maybe 1 1/2 to 2 metres - had managed to get up on top of the partly opened screen door, and spread itelf between the screen door and a ledge over the front door.

    When Wife opened the screen door, Snake fell down and and draped himself around her neck. Wife re-entered the house, quickly and very audibly, still wearing Snake. Snake, possibly disturbed by the loud screams, decided he would rather be elsewhere, and dropped to the floor. Despite efforts to shepherd him towards the still-open front door, he opted for the safety of the interior of the piano, where he made himself comfortable among all the interior works. Wife sat watching the piano with an eagle eye for the remainder of the night - Snake wasn't going anywhere else in the house unless she knew about it!

    Snake was coaxed out of the piano by a snake handler the next morning, who said he would release Snake in more congenial surroundings. Wonder if it was anywhere near Mark's place?

    Snake Tale 2

    I started a drill press one morning. It started normally, then there was a collosal BANG. I immediately switched it off to investigate. Apparently a little green tree snake thought this was a nice place for a sleep, and wound himself around one of the step pulleys. When his world started to go round he must have put his head up to investigate, and it was promptly chopped off by the V belt, hence the bang. You wouldn't believe the amount of mess a small headless snake can make in a confined space at 1400 RPM!

    I could go on about other incidents, like the time the old Land Cruiser would not start, and on lifting the bonnet I found a large copper coloured swamp python wrapped around the cylinder head, comfortably supported by the spark plug wires. He didn't want to move because he was sleeping off a good feed of my ducklings...........

    You do get used to it after a while though.

    Frank.

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    The trouser snake can be one of the more deadly snakes to get into the home...

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    Franco: I'm glad I'm not the only one with this kind of fun. I was battling one at the front door years ago and it had it's mouth round the broom brush biting it and my pet black cat behind me giving backup when the rechargeable torch battery died and I was in total darkness, I must have beat the cat back up the steps inside to get another torch. The old snake up in the screen door falling on you is quite common too.

    RC: Yep it's a carpet snake : they get called amethystine becaues they have an iridescent metallic blue-purple glow under the right light conditions.

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