snake catching tools - West Australia

[desbromilow]

Be careful with those fierce snakes. From what I've heard they are the most dangerous in the world. Do you have those in your area?

I live in a semi rural area (village) and surrounded by farmland and bush. The calls I get near my house is predominantly brown snakes and dugites, tiger snakes (wetter areas) and a very occasional copper head, or death adder. We also have the occasional python (carpet snakes)
Not long after I was trained up I got a call to relocate a "baby crocodile" I got there to find it was actually a blue tongue lizard - the guy who called was a immigrant who didn't know the local wildlife, so actually thought it was a real crocodile.
Blue tongues and bobtails/ shinglebacks are lovely to relocate, and quite cute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa


I work up north WA (Pilbara) and the snakes in that area are a mix of brown snakes, taipans, and pythons. There are tonnes of lizards of all sizes up north, but people generally adopt a "live and let live" attitude with them since they don't pose a threat, or creat fear the way snakes do. The lizards range from 150mm long dragon lizards (ta - ta lizards, and "noddies") up to 1.5m (5') long sand goannas (locally called "bung-arrows")