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Chi13

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That's a beauty Donald! Biggest I have seen is about 12 ft, but I reckon yours is much larger.
Saw a much smaller one, think it's a spotted python. SEQ.

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Donald Mallard

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Looks like he's just hanging out.
haha yea trying to chill with that full belly , they are not too active until it gets digested , he headed up on the roof , might be in the guttering or found a hiding spot up there where its good and warm and out of sight ..
That's a beauty Donald! Biggest I have seen is about 12 ft, but I reckon yours is much larger.
Saw a much smaller one, think it's a spotted python. SEQ.

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hes not as big as he looks chi , the belly makes him look a lot bigger than he really is ,
ive seen some really long ones that were a bit thin for their length and the odd fat and really long one , i guess they are different sorts of python , but most folks up here just call the scrub pythons ,
id say the one in my pic is a carpet snake , they tend to grow to 12 or 13 feet from what ive noted in the time ive been watching ,


the amethystine pythons (scrub python) are much larger , up to 8 metres , and maybe more on the odd rare old one so the locals reckon ..

Ive seen one around 20 ft , or a little bigger ,, up to 12 inches diameter in the wider section of his body , and a head like the size of a good sized dog , 4 inches at least between the eyes ,

i really like snakes , so felt privileged to see that big fella , not many folks get to ever see one that size ...
 

Chi13

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I have a soft spot for snakes too, even dangerous ones. Pythons would be my favourites though. I've had to relocate a few 6 footers from chook cages etc, and they are all muscle.
 

rod58

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as a lad donald i did a bit of ringing out beyond mt isa , barkly downs , and we saw one that crossed the track we were moving gear on . at a guess haha and if my memory is correct i'd say it was 18ft .. bloody huge and very docile , not like some i've encounted !
 
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That's right Rod. I saw one here a few years ago that was 25 feet. S/he sounded like a canvas fire hose being dragged as s/he moved across a big rock.

Took us a while to see the snake and thus explane the dead wallabies by this hole in the chook wire fence. The wallabies were wet up to their hips and we figure the python couldn't crush the pelvic girdle to get them down his throat.


Have some pics in a suitcase somewhere. Perhaps my descendants will find them.

as a lad donald i did a bit of ringing out beyond mt isa , barkly downs , and we saw one that crossed the track we were moving gear on . at a guess haha and if my memory is correct i'd say it was 18ft .. bloody huge and very docile , not like some i've encounted !
 

Donald Mallard

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as a lad donald i did a bit of ringing out beyond mt isa , barkly downs , and we saw one that crossed the track we were moving gear on . at a guess haha and if my memory is correct i'd say it was 18ft .. bloody huge and very docile , not like some i've encounted !
i found the bigger they got , the less they were worried about humans and the more docile they were as a result ,
after about 10 ft long i guess we are a bit less of a threat to them ..
 

Donald Mallard

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goodness thats bleak and cold looking for me star ,, the poor trees are even mostly naked except the conifers ,,,, brrrr , id be in that grow room of yours all the time if i was there ..
 

budsnblunts

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So my new spot this year got absolutely thrashed by possums. Luckily I am trained in having plants eaten, only really sucked for a little bit this time. The rest from my old spots are doing okay though
 

rod58

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howdy star crash ! it looks like to me that your looking for some good old ozzie heat !

or is that just sand on the edge of the road !!

either way your living in the wrong spot .. cheers for the pics anyway ..
 

star crash

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goodness thats bleak and cold looking for me star ,, the poor trees are even mostly naked except the conifers ,,,, brrrr , id be in that grow room of yours all the time if i was there ..

howdy star crash ! it looks like to me that your looking for some good old ozzie heat !

or is that just sand on the edge of the road !!

either way your living in the wrong spot .. cheers for the pics anyway ..
It may look bleak but actually it’s exciting because this is very shortly all going to come to life and be very beautiful:D
 

Sunshineinabag

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i spotted this bloke this morning , i guess he had a nice meal last night , possum or bandicoot by the look of the lump ,,
the dog had no idea he was there even ,, lol ..


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Wally your the bushmasta! I have four feet of snow off my back porch! I wish I could like snakes...one meal a week or a month .....lol
Soooo I'm over in the states ( vermont) but I feel like an honorary aussie esp after going on leave in Perth
(Usmc) live australia kinda wish I'd not been a bad boy and got felonies.....your customs would look at my record and goo oh no you don't!
Gorgeous python?
 

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Donald Mallard

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It may look bleak but actually it’s exciting because this is very shortly all going to come to life and be very beautiful:D
yea that transformation must be amazing star ,
like a new beginning each time ...

Wally your the bushmasta! I have four feet of snow off my back porch! I wish I could like snakes...one meal a week or a month .....lol
Soooo I'm over in the states ( vermont) but I feel like an honorary aussie esp after going on leave in Perth
(Usmc) live australia kinda wish I'd not been a bad boy and got felonies.....your customs would look at my record and goo oh no you don't!
Gorgeous python?
crazy isnt it that a penal colony wont allow folks with records here now ,, once apon a time u would have been greeted with open arms sunshineinabag ,,

i think my record prevents me from going to your neck of the woods too ...


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those little tufts on the ends of each branch and on the top seem to suggest they are going to be some reasonable flowers it seems star , they have formed quickly , its going to be great to watch the rest of the cycle , should be all over in 8 to 10 weeks i figure ..
 
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These Yanks that come to this Aussie Forum ... Wal, d'you think we should make them Honorary Cobbers? And if so: what sort of initiation should they undergo?


(And howaryadoin without Facebook?)


Fukn good that Facebook's taken the attitude they have re Australia! I say go to the source for information, not to F/B!
 

Donald Mallard

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These Yanks that come to this Aussie Forum ... Wal, d'you think we should make them Honorary Cobbers? And if so: what sort of initiation should they undergo?


(And howaryadoin without Facebook?)


Fukn good that Facebook's taken the attitude they have re Australia! I say go to the source for information, not to F/B!
scull a few beers and eat a cold meat pie would probably do fine satty ,, lol ...



still got facebook , just some of the crap is gone ,, which is aok with me,
im kinda ok with facebooks attitude too man, stuff murdoch and his crap , thats actually where this is stemming from , our current leaders are puppets of his ....
 

rod58

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scull a few beers and eat a cold meat pie would probably do fine satty ,, lol ...



still got facebook , just some of the crap is gone ,, which is aok with me,
im kinda ok with facebooks attitude too man, stuff murdoch and his crap , thats actually where this is stemming from , our current leaders are puppets of his ....

lol..maybe i'm old school .. i read newspapers !
fuck facebook !
i see facebook and twitter are going to merge .. calling it twitface !
 

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