How a snake catcher caught the biggest eastern brown he's seen in 15 years
A snake catcher has found the largest eastern brown snake he has seen in his 15-year career.
Richie Gilbert, from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, caught the 2.05-metre monster on Friday after he was called to a home in Elimbah, north of Brisbane.
Mr Gilbert filmed the moment he caught the deadly snake in the shed of a property.
He said the mammoth reptile was closing in on a man sitting on a couch nearby.
“He can’t get out without going past the snake so he is sitting still and waiting for me to get there,” Mr Gilbert said as he drove to the home.
“They are quite scared because he’s got himself into a position where he can’t get out of the garage and the snake is getting nice and close.
“It’s always fun catching a big brown snake but when somebody else is involved and close to it, you always worry.”
Once Mr Gilbert arrives at the home, he scours the garage for the snake before seeing it poking out the edge of the shed.
“He’s a big brown all right,” he says in the video.
“The adrenaline is pumping now.”
After 15 minutes of rearranging furniture in the shed, Mr Gilbert caught the large snake.
“That’s a chunky brown snake,” he said in the video.
“Gee he made me work for it.”
According the the Australian Museum, eastern brown snakes are on average 1.5 metres in length. It claims the largest reliably measured and recorded had a length of 2.01 metres.
Following the catch, Mr Gilbert posted a picture on the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 Facebook page.
“This massive eastern brown snake measured in at a whopping 2.05m,” Mr Gilbert wrote alongside the picture.
“That’s as big as I have ever caught within the Sunshine Coast and Northern Brisbane regions in the 15 years I have been relocating around these parts.
“Prior to that I relocated around Bargara and Bundaberg and caught a lot of eastern browns but again never anything this big.”
One commented: “It’s a monster.”
“The stuff of nightmares,” another said.
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