I came home from the shops this afternoon to find a long Eastern Brown snake sunning itself on my driveway. At first i thought it was a tree branch, then it raised its head and looked at me. This was a significant snake, must have been two metres long, as it almost stretched across the width of the driveway. I ran the car at it to try and kill it but it took off like a rocket into the bushes next to the driveway, and my neighbor's fence. I discretely tried to see of I could find out where it went but no sign of it and I was not getting too close. I heard my neighbor's little Cocker Spaniel barking and thought oh S##t. I messaged my neighbor and he came home to join the hunt. The dog was ok.
So what do we do now? Neither one of us has any yard snake experience, well other than a small tree snake once. I did see a Brown Snake at Gunshot Creek on Cape York, but nothing local that could kill you. Our blocks back onto the bush, and it is pretty overgrown and needs a burnoff, so it probably arrived frtom there.
How do we find it and get rid of it? Can a pro snake catcher find it wherever it is hiding now? Should I find a Mongoose? I am afraid of walking up there now.
