I decided to start a whole new thread for this subject, because as a reptile enthusiast i know that many people have a genuine phobia of reptiles, especially snakes. By starting a new thread, people that dont like snakes simply wont look into the thread and wont stumble across them.

Reptiles are one of my other passions, and one that i share with my wife, who owns a centralian carpet python named Scar.
Here are a couple of photos of Scar we took last week. I am 6 foot tall, or a shade under, so scar would easily be 6 foot long, maybe even a bit longer!!!




A young lace monitor (goanna)


A blotched blue tongue lizard




A cranky tigersnake. When they flare there necks out.....step back!!





A mountain skink.


Lace monitor (quite large)


Red bellied black snake.






Another very large Lace monitor.

The weirdest reptile of them all....a wife, with one of the biggest...a goanna. She looks a little uncomfortable!!LOLOLOL


Water skinks,




A Jacky dragon,






Cunninghams skink,


An eastern brown snake. Responsible for the most human fatalities in Australia. More than all other snakes put together. The eastern brown is the second most dangerous snake in the entire world, second only to the inland taipan. The coastal taipan comes third folled by the tiger snake.






Another tiger snake, doing what most snakes do best...getting out of the road!!!






My favourite snake, the alpine copperhead. Slightly less dangerous than a tiger, but more venomous than a black snake, however the copperhead is usually a very shy, very approachable snake that doesnt get aggressive unless its agrovated.

An eastern bearded dragon cracking the shits!!!!!


The same eastern bearded dragon taken 1 minuts before the above photo. lol These things are sooo cool!!!


A different eastern bearded dragon.






A blind snake. A nocturnal snake with poor eyesight and non venomous. rarely encountered by humans.




A marbled gecko.

If anybody else has any reptile photos they have taken, whether it be a snake swimming across the river, or basking on a log, please post it here, i would love to see them.
I desperately want to add a photo of a wild murray darling carpet python to my collection, but they are as rare as rocking horse pooh around here!!!

Love ya work Wang. I think I will stick to chasing fish & you can have that pastime all to yourself. Seeing all those pics will keep reminding me about where I put my feet this summer, you can chase em & I'll go the other way

Great Pic's Wang, I get nervous just looking at them pics!
I have seen a fair few out on the water, will see if i can find some pics.
I have a blue tounge lizard in the large reptile enclosure under my 6ft Cod tank, I haven't told Presto I have the lizard, will wait to he's stayign at my place and tell him then! he will be to scared to go in my house! haha.

I often wonder just how close I have come to been within striking distance of a snake and not even known.
I had a black snake shoot out from some grass about a foot from where I was standing fishing on the edge of a small river in Narrabri. The snake took off across the river and I was to busy keepong and eye out for it for the next hour to really worry about fishing.

Years ago I was fishing below Yarrawonga weir and seen something floating down the river and relised it was "floating" across the river and not down! turned out to be a Black snake about 2ft long swam right to the back of the boat where we where tied up bait fishing. I got a rod and used the rod tip to flick the snake away down the river.

Somewhere I also have some photo's of a few very interesting reptiles and nasty looking critters that I seen when I was in Thailand earlier this year. I was walking around a market and they had a large animal section, the stuff you can buy is amazing, snakes, lizards, funnel web and bird eating spiders, ect all in just a down town market.

-Boobs

Thanks boobs and redneck.
I hope you can find a few photos boobs. I too have a whole stack of snake horror stories. As for walking past them within striking distance, well im sure we all have many times. Many people dont realise, that snakes will avoid striking you. If they are hidden under a log or rock or something and you walk straight past, they will jusy sit motionless and wait for you to pass.
If you disturb them, yhey will get into a striking position, or flatten there necks, depending on what species they are, the next step for them is to give you a false strike, where they look like theyve trid to bite you, which will scare the bejeezus out of you.......from there they will strike.
You often hear people saying that a snake tried to bite them.....believe me, if a snake wanted to bite them it would of. This is most likely a warning strike, but most people dont realise this.
Sometimes if a snake is protecting its nest, or its young, it will just strike first time, but they rarely do, as i said earlier, they prefer to just lay low and wait for you to pass.
Eastern browns are the most nutorius for striking first and asking questions later.
Most of the people bitten in Australia are usually amature licenced herptologists playing with there pets, or people tormenting or trying to kill snakes.
I have a lot of friends who do a lot of fishing, hunting and bushwalking, and not one of them has EVER been bitten by a snake. But theyve all encountered planty.
Watch this, this is my wife feeding her pet carpet python a dead rat.....with her hand!!! Most people are not stupid enough to do this. I know when i feed him i use tongs!!!LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOqrYMHDNM

here you go wang. This is a south western carpet python from western australia. I found it crossing the road one day at work. I sent a photo to CALM in WA and they identified it for me saying it was quite un common for the area i found it. Cheers Mal.

Cool photos Mal, thats what i want to see. You lucky bugger, i would love to stumble upon one of them in the wild!!! Thanks for sharing them.

Mal, your bloody mad!

How did you know it wasn't poisonious? gee your a game man, much gamer then me and the other big fella!

My biggest fear with snake's is that if I see one within striking distance I will faint (or have a bloody heart attack!) and fall on the snake who will then bite me as I'm sure he wont be happy if I fell on him!

-Boob's