General Chat

Sal keep us updated! JA

Sal, Phone the NPWS (National Parks and Wildlife service) or if you're in Sydney phone the Reptile Park on the Central Coast. They'll probably put you in touch with someone in your area that deals in snake catching. Susie

Ok bye Hazel....

Stand really still try and look for markings.......dogs are always a worry they just bark..............get them indoors.........gotta go finish dinner be back later

Ok..... LOL!!! Had planned on that already! S

Yeah run fast

LOL! I knew we went on that first aid course for something!!!! When it rears it's head and goes for me.....I should stand there??? S

In your dreams girl.................respect them thats it.........then I run.........chances are it is harmless one when it goes for you and rears it head still do not run...........

Thanks JA.....from what I read it gives a nasty bite but not too dangerous....will take a look out later with Paul as apparently they come out at dusk.

It sounds like a grey. Looking at browns they say they go from tan to drk brown, with bands when juvenile I can well imagine you moving fast on meeting a metre long snake - they say they are mildly venomous - but would not fancy trying that out lol Take care JA

Maybe our next Christmas outing Hazel!!!!!

Sal A really good place to go and can be fun is the Repitile Park............it is good from a point of education and a fun day out shows you lots of snakes etc etc and spiders............it is well worth the effort Haze

Don't think there were any markings.....just a lovely grey, silvery colour and full length about a metre, but of course he was wiggling when I saw him...

Sal had not heard of this one before, it says endangered species. Look forwrd to eharing how you go most unsettleing Take care JA

Thanks Haze......the kids (Tilly, Immy and Joe saw it last weekend, but I thought they were kidding and that they'd seen a Blue Tongue) until I was being spied on by the washing line!!! He was quite sweet actually, rather pretty....but more scared of me than I of him luckily!!!!! Will be on the look out in future...... S

Sal Any markings at all???

Sal The chances of it being a problem are remote...but in saying that always be aware..................I never walk bare foot in my yard and remember we are in drought............snakes will come looking for water...............you back on bush .........before you grab the hose make sure the snake is not coiled around it.............not uncommon even in the suberbs.....I had it in the Blue Mountains,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Haze

I'm not sure, but from my investigations! lol! think it may be a Hemiaspis Damelii!!!!! Unless there are other grey ones with the same description.... He has gone underground now - can't find him as he is in hiding but I am on the look out.... Sal

What was it Sal, we have brown snakes - one of them bit Mr Darcy the burmese early last December Lucky I realised what was wrong with him and got him to the vet I am told just in time JA

You lucky lucky things. I have had an adder in my garden more than once, (very innocuous by Australian snake standards!) and it goes down as the highlights of my life, especially as I live in Souh London and not in the country. Snakes are amazing, beautiful creatures. Bev x