Another Visitor

We get lots of visits from various critters in our little patch of paradise.  Quite a lot of them choose to forsake our beautiful gardens in favour of the indoors.  Hopefully our most recent visitor won't do that!!  This is him.  Or possibly her.  I'm not sure.  He, or she, is a very large dugite.   The photos aren't the greatest but neither of us wanted to get close enough to get the snake's best side in the shot.  Even if he, or she, was chowing down on a baby rabbit. Which, by the way, is a spectacularly gruesome thing to see!!

This dugite has been hanging out near our verandah for quite a while.  So we thought we'd contact the local snake catcher to get it moved on.  I explained to the snake catcher that we had a large snake we believed was a dugite.  When I said it was munching on a rabbit, the snake catcher said that rabbits are way too big for dugites so it was very unlikely to be one.  I sent him the photos so he could check for himself.  His response was, "Oh my.  That is a very big dugite".  Turns out to be the biggest one he's seen for a while.  He promised to come out and catch it to relocate it elsewhere.  But he never turned up!! We've not seen the dugite for an age so hopefully he, or she, has chosen greener pastures somewhere a long, long, long way away from us.