Sounds like a type of Carpet Python to me.
tomndebb… thats true but only for north american species.
Thanks, Lady Venom and GopherGod72 for the python suggestions. It’s not the green one at the link, but the general shape is right. Add a lateral yellowish stripe down each side and some hash marks of the same color, and we’ve got it nailed.
I’m gonna grab a quick cup of coffee and a mouse and launch a python safari.
Perhaps it was someone’s pet Emerald Tree Boa that escaped into the wild? Might be worth a look while you are surfing with the pythons.
Howzabout an olive python? Most pythons have pretty distinct patterns but this seems to be more of an all-over dark green.
http://www.tbc.net/~gknaack/pics/pythons/olive.html
At this point, I’m desperate to know what the durn snake is!
How about a Diamond python. Pretty common in eastern Australia and often kept as pets -at least by people who keep snakes as pets.
BTW that site gives links to a lot of other pictures of snakes while this site gives a good coverage of Australian pythons with a lot of photos (including the rather unfortunately named Children’s Python)
Any luck yet? Enquiring minds wanna know!! hehe
Could me a Monty Python.
“be”. :o
So have you worked out what it was yet? Just curious.
Thanks for all the help. I’ve looked at lots of sources I hadn’t found before, and lots and lots of pictures, but I’m still coming up blank, as in batting zero. While I didn’t know there were so many pythons in the world, I now think it wasn’t one of them. The head just isn’t right. This snake had a head shaped more like that of a pit viper.
I keep going back to Smeghead’s remark about a garden hose with sprinkler attached. That’s a good start on a visualization. A green garden hose, somewhat mildewed, with a yellow stripe down each side, and a tapering tail. Add hashmarks to match the stripe and put on a triangular head, considerable wider than the body. Make it about five to six feet long and let it slither in a snakey manner.
I know it exists because I saw it. It was on a board in my shed, so it didn’t have parts hidden in the grass or bushes. But I still don’t know what it was.