Just had a beautiful visitor in the shed out back.  Gorgeous Python.  Must have been at least 8-10 ft long.  Bit hard to tell, as she wouldn't keep still so I could get a good photo, and wasn't straight at any time.  Might go back out soon and try for another good shot.[Photographic that is.]
Cheers,
xina. 

-- Edited by xina on Saturday 26th of September 2009 07:35:33 PM

That is a decent size Xina. Love to see that.

Was having dinner on the dining deck area at Adels Grove, a few years ago (NW Qld). A huge olive python came down the breezeway between Reception and the toilets - ever so calm and slow. It parked along the deck edge, under the lights, where insects might fall. It was stretched out, and went at least 12 foot. It was also totally oblivious to about 40 people sitting watching it!

Remind me never to go there Wendy.   I am extremely scared of snakes no matter what kind.

Ma

I had much the same experience up on cape york where a big fella came out next to some lights, apparently he was a freindly feller and would sit there waiting for the bats to come and grab the moths that gather around the lights, I thought "freindly hey" so I went to give him a pat, mongrel bloody thing spun around and grabbed me, tore a gash in my hand from wrist to bottom of thumb which in the tropical heat bled like a stuck pig, spent the next 3 hours getting stitched up at the first aid centre, no poison but terrible serated teeth

Dave, "friendly" doen't necessarily mean tame. Pat the python took on a whole new meaning for me just then as my mind went into imagination mode. Hee hee hee

Naughty Granny..................LOL.

I'm only a long time single, not dead. My imagination goes into overdrive often, but no hands-on. Gee you've got a grubby mind Ibbo. See, you're not dead either. When we stop looking and dreaming we're in trouble. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive, said the Bee Gees.

Naughty but nice..........hmmmmm..................

I am speechless.............grubby............Oh woe,a knife into my heart could not have hurt more.How can I look in a mirror without the pangs of remorse staring me in the face.Cheers.Ibbo.................................................Just Jesting Christine.

I'm sure you'll recover. Smuttiness and grubbiness are only a state of mind - mine. Last week a python couple, yes, a pair of pythons went astray at Yorkeys Knob, north of Cairns. Now there's something to think about. And who's being smutty now? Stayin' alive, stayin' alive, ah ah ah ah, stayin' alive! Just do it!

way to go Chris.   Just having a few Johnnie Walkers, listening to You Tube and the Bee Gees.  Good night

In the Kimberleys a python was crossing the bitumen in front of me so I stopped for a pic, got out with the camera and as I lined up a bloody big wedge tail swooped down and flew off with it That pic would have sold for a lot of money if I was quicker, shold have stopped sooner

Dirty Old Men Need Love Too.!! That's my defence Ibbo.

They sure do! There's really no such thing as dirty old men. They are sexy senior citizens. A few years ago I was on the road to Broome and a very large python was coiled up on the highway. He'd been hit and killed by something, leaving this huge pile of snake on the road. If anyone had hit in a small or even a medium car, it might have been tragic. The "next door neighbour", 50kms away lifted it off the road. It took a lot of effort by both of them.

Just reading and laughing. Way to go Chris!

Yes we did digress a little from the original topic, but that happens a lot here on the nomads. Nice to smile a while.