Two guys in the last week have told me they have seen Tiger snakes SWIMMING in the Australind estuary while they have been scooping for crabs (the guys, not the snakes
) Both in shallow water, one was near the shore, the other about 500 mtrs out on a shallow sandbar. I occasionally come across a dugite at work when I'm wearing jeans and workboots, but meeting a Tiger snake when you're only wearing boardies and a rashie and you are crotch deep in water
We have dams we swim in and have seen red bellied black snakes go in and swim around..luckily so far not at the same time as us!
tigers swim no problems at all. they live in swamps after all.
growing up i was chased by a couple in local rivers.
they are pretty quick through the water also.
redbelly's are angry criters but will leave you alone more than not.
they are frickin massive snakes and very scary just on size. i remember a 6 foot red belly at school growing up.
tigers are territorial to a point and like to let you know that. growing up a couple of local kids didn't make it into their teens after discovering tiger snake nests in dams.
always check would be my advice.
then there's the brown snakes.... angry mofo also. like to chase you as well.
actually I saw it kill & eat one so can't get better evidence than that!
) Both in shallow water, one was near the shore, the other about 500 mtrs out on a shallow sandbar. I occasionally come across a dugite at work when I'm wearing jeans and workboots, but meeting a Tiger snake when you're only wearing boardies and a rashie and you are crotch deep in water
That estuary sounds like a dangerous place.
Cobblers, firefish, sharks, stingrays, now tiger snakes, all you need now are seagoing redbacks to really scare off the foreigners!
and I was planning to sail there soon...
i lived on a lagoon as a child and did lots of sailing and so on. during a hot summer, you'd usually see snakes in the water, sometimes, a long way from shore.
our next door neighbor had a houseboat he'd start up every spring and it was kind of a ritual for the kids to come down and see it. It was parked nose first on the foreshore of the lagoon. this particular year the houseboat started up, and suddenly the water was filled with little tiger snakes, who had obviously nested nearby. i couldn't believe the size of this brood. i couldn't run fast enough...momma was sure to be nearby!
swimming snakes is one thing, check this out...
) Both in shallow water, one was near the shore, the other about 500 mtrs out on a shallow sandbar. I occasionally come across a dugite at work when I'm wearing jeans and workboots, but meeting a Tiger snake when you're only wearing boardies and a rashie and you are crotch deep in water
Boggy lake has Tigers, heard that someone sailed over one and caught it on the fin. I wouldn't want to stop after that!
Came across the biggest brown/tiger? last year when slashing the bottom paddock. We have a pretty steeply terraced terrain and there was a big rabbit hole coming out from a particularly steep section. I was on a quadbike towing a slasher and was standing up looking down through the long grass so that the wheels didn't fall into the hole. Came face to face with the snake that had obviously decided to live in that hole. It didn't seem too bothered by the fact that I was on a quadbike with a 10hp slasher running on the back. I figured that I would leave him there as at least I knew where he was. If they come hanging around the house I usually relocate them to the walking track about 500 metres away.
Not seen any swimming in lake Connewarre. Do they hang about in salt water estuary's? We have got Reedy lake about 1km away which is fresh water and must rate as the snake capital of Australia.
Terrific shots! We must get tigers over here but haven't noticed any locally. We used to do a bushwalk over a 'mtn' that had a narrow rocky ridge with a big drop eachside and it had a tiger snake that lived there. You didb't have any choice but to step over where it lived or fall..I did the walk earlier this year but figured the snake had probably died in the last 15years..
Flying snake is cute..at least is looks harmless..hope the browns + Tigers don't watch that vidoe and get ideas or i won't be going bushwalking anymore!
Fark Im glad I live in Sydney, apart from the usual sharks, spiders etc we only have dickhead jet skiers, P plate hoons and old ladies with trolleys. Thats scary!!!
I don't think we get many tigers snakes in NSW. Perhaps in certain areas they live. We mainly red belly black snakes, carpet snakes and some browns. Growing up on a farm I saw a fair few snakes, mainly red bellies, green tree snakes and pythons. They usually go their own way and were not agressive.
A school friend of mine trod on a red belly and was bitten. He became nauseous and had to be taken to hospital. They didn't give him any antivenon or anything like that and he was okay the next day. He was about 16 years old. So in
ran ova a snake a year ago on my pa's tractor .. curled the feet right up into the seat and when i stoped i jumped 6foot faway cause i thought it was sitting under the tractor some were waiting for me
) Both in shallow water, one was near the shore, the other about 500 mtrs out on a shallow sandbar. I occasionally come across a dugite at work when I'm wearing jeans and workboots, but meeting a Tiger snake when you're only wearing boardies and a rashie and you are crotch deep in water
) Both in shallow water, one was near the shore, the other about 500 mtrs out on a shallow sandbar. I occasionally come across a dugite at work when I'm wearing jeans and workboots, but meeting a Tiger snake when you're only wearing boardies and a rashie and you are crotch deep in water
Went surfing the other day, parked on the beach next to the sand-dunes (high tide) at Crowdy Head, rolled up my board bag and stowed it under the car. When I came in and unrolled the bag a 6' red belly slithered out of it.
Also, a couple of days later passed a 3' sea snake slithering on the water about 200 metres out.
People ask me "aren't you afraid of sharks?" My reply... "it's the snakes you've got to be worried about."
probably just one of those things krisiz... maybe it had just had a meal and was feeling pretty cosy. 
snakes are unpredictable.
that tiger in pweedas photo is full on! i'd be out of there, not hanging around with a camera
luckily i haven't come across a snake for years. i'd like to keep it that way. unless i have a shovel with me.
Sailed at Jimmy's Beach NSW earlier this year. There is a sandy path that leads from the rigging area to the water. The path has two sand hills on either side where kids play, run around and jump off.
As I was heading back to the rigging area from the water I thought I saw something move across the path and head up into the sand hill. Another bloke was coming in the opposite direction and said to me "Did you see that snake just then?" I said "I think I did." He said "It was a six foot brown snake."
"Great" I said. "Hope they don't swim."
Tried to tell the kiddies not to play in the sand dunes, but you know kids -don't believe anyone unless you can see it for yourself.
No recorded snake bites there yet.....more good luck than good management.
