renth

Look what we found last weekend when we had a day out to Mount Dale....

tonyk38

LOL! Western Bluetongue! Excellent picture!

gogi79

ewwwwwwwww what the hell is that ? :scared:

jopaulss

In between the kids school and home the other day, which is all in the same suburb we saw a total of 3 squashed bobtails. Bless them they must still be asleep when they make their dash across the roads
Joanne

renth

As Tony said, it's a Bluetongue, or shingleback, or bob tail - they've got lots of names.

We've got one resident in our garden - "Bobby"

PS Saw a HUGE dugite slithering across the Ocean Reef road on Saturday, the car coming in the opposite direction just ran over the end bit of its body and I can now see where the expression "mad as a cut snake" comes from - it went crazy.

jopaulss

But we don't get snakes here you know
I love them snakes and lizards i think they are fascinating creatures, its the bloomin cockroaches i cant stand.
Joanne

aussie73

The good thing about them is that they eat rats and keep rat numbers down.
Lizards are not venomous and harmless to humans

tonyk38

Crazy though it sounds, cars have been known to get flat tyres going over poisonous snakes as they strike the tyre and pierce it with their fangs!

jopaulss

They have a pretty nasty bite though dont they. They lock onto your finger or hand and wont let go. The wildlife just loves our street we always have the odd Dugite or tiger snake slithering around
Joanne

renth

We've had a tiger snake in the front and a dugite in the back garden.

Quinkana

Hand written sign in window of a done over Vaucluse house:

Beware - Property Security by
SNAKES
Inside & Out 24/7.

(or something close to that).

mr mover

I bet you have fairys at the bottom of your garden ......... ........ mm

lucyb

I do..I live opposite a gay club!

(only joking!..its a gay and lesbian club....no not really!)

tonyk38

Sorry to disappoint you, but it's true!

I've read accounts of this happening in India with King Cobras which are the largest venomous snakes in the world with fangs to match! If a car isn't doing a zillion miles an hour on a decent road, but instead is bumping along a dirt track and goes over the tail of a six foot king cobra.......well I think you see my point.

Poisonous snakes can strike with incredible speed and they usually do it istinctively. I'm guessing they come off second best taking on a car but that doesn't stop them!

tonyk38

Technically speaking, the Shingleback is the outback species of bluetongue, also known as a bogeye or pinecone lizard, as it looks like a pine cone on legs!
So I guess it earns the name shingleback from the rough scaling of this species.