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Giant snake devouring lizard stuns beachgoers

Western Australia’s beaches are known for producing some pretty incredible sights but nothing could prepare two local beachgoers for what they stumbled across over the weekend.

Holly King and Sinead Hart had gone for a Sunday morning stroll down Little Beach near Albany when they came across an enormous snake devouring a lizard just metres from the water’s edge.

“It already had the lizard in its mouth once we got a picture,” she told the Albany Advertiser.

“We kept walking and it was gone by the time we got back.”

They said by the time they got back the snake had already consumed the lizard from head to tail. Image: Facebook/Holly King
They said by the time they got back the snake had already consumed the lizard from head to tail. Image: Facebook/Holly King
The beachgoers came across the snake devouring the lizard on Little Beach near Albany in Western Australia. Image: Facebook/Holly King
The beachgoers came across the snake devouring the lizard on Little Beach near Albany in Western Australia. Image: Facebook/Holly King

Posting the remarkable pictures on Facebook, Ms King said they believe the snake to be a dugite – a venomous snake native to Western Australia.

She said not even the waves washing over the snake were enough to deter it from enjoying its breakfast.

“We both thought dugite straightaway when we saw it,” she wrote.

“He tried to get out of the water when it washed it over him, but I think he was too focused on his breaky to worry to much about the water.”