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huddo0312
21-01-08, 12:48 PM
Went for a drive to check how things are looking on one of my properties after some rain. Guess this fella had the same idea. He is a beautiful specimen so I took one photo from a good distance and let him be on his way. He reared up to have a sniff and went about his business without too much regard for me. I guess he figured he could do me.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa47/huddo0312/coastaltaipan.jpg.


Dave
XTfreak
21-01-08, 12:52 PM
Nice picture.
Rain? You got rain?
Bill
timbo
21-01-08, 01:25 PM
Nice picture. He has some length on him, what breed is he?

Cheers Tim
Clemo
21-01-08, 01:35 PM
Is that a tipan?
hutcho
21-01-08, 01:40 PM
I reckon he's about 5 foot of taipan.

great photo, lovely colour but looking at the dirt, there wasn't a lot of rain.

Cheers
huddo0312
21-01-08, 02:27 PM
That's about 7' of coastal taipan. The business end that's off the ground is about 15". I was a prudent 15' from him. Given that he can turn and strike the length of his body, I wasn't getting any closer. Hutcho, we had 12" of rain overnight on boxing day, and over a metre of rain in January so far. Not much by our standards. Probably a lot by yours though. None in the last three days though.

Dave
Mullac
22-01-08, 08:38 AM
That thing is massive! :o I would of shat my dacks if i got that close :P

Awesome photo.
hutcho
22-01-08, 11:26 AM
fek :!

when my parents were out near Miriam Vale (between Bundy and Gladstone) over a few days snake got in their peachface cages, swallowed a bird then couldnt fit through the mesh so were stuck).

Me and the brother and law reckoned if one had a bit of fencing wire in a loop and the other had some poly pipe we could open the cage and drag them out and get rid of them (they were pretty cranky by now)

Anyway after the 2nd one had a couple of strikes at me - thankfully the wire loop meant that he could only get to within a couple of inches we put him in a big glass jar and took him into the ambo's to identify (about 45 minutes away)

The looked exactlly the same as the fella in this post only shorter about 4-4&1/2 and were described as eastern taipans. I got a bit concerned over the snakes after that.