[Update: Before advising me that these aren't copperheads, North American visitors should note that these are Australian Copperheads, genus Austrelaps, and read the wikipedia entry for further information].
The trip to Cathedral Rock National Park saw us coming across three Copperhead snakes on and around the tracks. Two of them are pictured here:
Copperheads aren’t high on the list of venomous snakes in Australia, but still toxic enough to kill a human.
Even though it’s a cool day and the snakes are a little lethargic, we’ll not get in their way.
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Thank you for this, oh so clear! picture of the kind of fella I met last week at RACV Inverloch resort. It was disturbed as I came to my car, parked alongside our “villa”. This photo depicts the very memorable coppery shimmer on the sides, that had me convinced I wasn’t visited by a Brown snake. So now, I’ve met: tiger, red-bellied black & copperhead. As always, I stood stock still, and let it retreat. Hallelujah!
thanks for the comments and the pictures.and it’s really coincident that we saw the three snake hanging out in Cathedral Rock National Park just a week ago.