little visitor today

[thewiz]

on top of our pergola watching me a little dugite put the hose on him then lost him lucky snake :shock:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii21/Mullman2000/DSCF2263.jpg

[joe_jaskot]

Lucky you! Aren't they a protected species in Australia?

[thewiz]

yes but still if he bites me or one of my girl your dead i would have chopped his head off :icon82:

[AlishanAS]

I think Austalia has 7 of the world's 10 most venomous snakes.

Here's the dugite:

http://www.pilbarapythons.com/dugite.htm

[Afreakin]

We have big bad MUGGERS and you have 5' deadly snakes. At least most of the time we see the MUGGER comin'

Nice Pic

[thewiz]

we have bad snakes,box jelly fish,blue ring octopus,funnel web spider.
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm

http://www.didyouknow.org/animals/octopus.htm

http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/funnelweb.htm

[emartin]

we have bad snakes,box jelly fish,blue ring octopus,funnel web spider.
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm

http://www.didyouknow.org/animals/octopus.htm

http://www.austmus.gov.au/factsheets/funnelweb.htm
I love the blue ring octopus... I remember watching a PBS Nature speciel on Cephlapods and that showed the blue rings spawning... Cool animals...

Doesn't Australia have like the densest population of different species of venomous snakes in the world though?

~Ed

[nick a]

Pseudonaja affinis ( Gunther 1872)

Cynotilapia afra (Günther, 1894)

I wonder if that was the same guy?

[Flareside]

man, if I had those things slithering around I would try and buy and tame a mongoose as my next pet!

Cool pic. If I saw a highly venomous snake checking me out in my yard, Imm not so sure I would have the steady hands to take a pic

[Longstocking]

I remember hen I was a kid in Brisbane. I was playing the back yard and saw one of these suckers cross my path about 5 feet from me. Luckily my parents always said to me.... "If you see a brown snake here, run the other way" LOLOLOL.... So I ran the other way !!! Very fast might I add. :icon82:

How close did you get to this guy? I don't think I could sit there still and take a shot... It would be a big BLURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[thewiz]

last summer i come home from work at lunch time went to have a sleep and right beside the bed was a dugite on the floor i chopped his head off with a shovel 1 week latter i here my kids yelling snake 1 in front of the tv two weeks latter my mother inlaw is baby sitting the kids and one came out from under the lounge and chopped all there heads off they come through any hole in to the house always this time of the year the cat kills a few