Thread: Snakes alive and this is a big muver!

Originally Posted by drivesafe

I just received this from a relo in the USA, does anybody know anything about it?

This picture of a King Brown was taken at Branxton, NSW in April this year.

It's big

Saw this on facebook, a friend of a friend on my facebook posted it apparently taken near there house recently, other then that thats about all i know.... ****ing scary looking snake.

It may not be what it seems:

Picture of Huge King Brown Snake in Branxton NSW

Originally Posted by Scouse

It may not be what it seems:

Picture of Huge King Brown Snake in Branxton NSW

Would like to see a higher resolution picture.
It is not an Olive Python has has been inferred in the slayer web. Wrong colour and wrong shaped head.
It does look like a King Brown of some sort.
IMHO the image has been photo shopped. Maybe elongated or a python body with a King Brown head. Proportions dont look right.
Scale is a bit hard to gauge as well. Perspective would be better and give us some idea of the length.
Having said that I have seen Western Browns over 9ft long, A huge Tiger at around 11ft long and King Browns over 8ft, and a couple of 7-8ft blacks and red bellied blacks, though rare. All witnessed by more than 2 people. On our trip up to Broome driving through one of the low lying wetlands saw the biggest python (Olive Python I think) I have ever seen in Australia would have been 14ft plus long and a girth of around 3-4inches. They are known to grow up to 6.5m long with unconfirmed 8m specimens sighted. Not found in the area the phot was allegedly taken.Was too dangerous to turn the car and van around to go back and get a pic, but was itching too,
The big ones tend to shy away and avoid humans. The majority of the ones we pick up are between 4 inches and 2ft long.
An interesting thing is a King Brown is not infact a brown snake at all, but a black snake: King Brown (Mulga Snake) Genus Pseudechis australis up to 2.5m long. Colouration can vary from a light brown as juveniles, to darker brown, black, black with green tinge, black with blue tinge.

As for the pic what is the crop in the back drop, are they pineapples?
Cheers
Craig

I received that picture from a friend in Melbourne with the following details

Subject: Big snake
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:13:00 +1000

Received in an email chain originating from someone's mate working on an Abigroup project in Cardwell (Qld).

They took this pic on site Thu 12 May 2011.

In the world of email and pictures trust no one

I can't confirm validity but found this reply

its a cane field,,

that "snake" would make me have an accident!!

This is why I asked the question.

This seemed to good ( BAD ) to be true!