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06-May-07, 04:40 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Queensland | | |  Queensland walks and snakes
I was wondering if anyone can tell me where in queensland these rainforest walks are where you get to see snakes basking and tree snakes in trees and wildlife? i love bushwalking and hiking but i never seem to come across any but i always hear people saying they saw some on their walk. Also is it dependent on their active season? when is that?
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06-May-07, 05:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Melbourne Gender:  | | | |
i would like to know this about melbourne, to preserve the areas, if people could just pm a location closeish to the city that they know about it would be appreciated. i love seeing things out in the wild, ive had a koala walk in front of me a few times while stayng in a holiday house on the great ocean road! that was pretty cool!
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06-May-07, 05:46 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Oxenford, Gold Coast. | | | | binna barra
iv found many snakes doing just that in binna barra np west of the gold coast mostly carpet pythons the odd diamond python and once a tiger snake
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06-May-07, 05:48 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | |
If you go to the weir near colleges crossing(brisbane river) there are usually alot of snakes around there, plenty of browns and others too. Pretty much anywhere where there is bushland there will be snakes.
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06-May-07, 05:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Queensland | | | |
yeah i agree i love exploring and i love seeing wildlife, i saw so many carpets back home where i used to live ( further north of brissie ) and it was so cool! i went on a big trek today and saw nothing but a spider! not even a lizard or birds (but i could hear the birds way up high somewhere!!)
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06-May-07, 05:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by crazywhiteboy  iv found many snakes doing just that in binna barra np west of the gold coast mostly carpet pythons the odd diamond python and once a tiger snake | I wonder how long it will take someone to tell you what you did/didnt see  |
06-May-07, 05:51 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Queensland | | | |
thanks guys for your input i will take a walk at gold coast !
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06-May-07, 05:53 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: Queensland | | | |
i guess it comes down to luck hey, sometimes you see a lot and sometimes you dont, right place at the right time i guess. i probably walked past a 100 cool animals!
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06-May-07, 06:13 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | |
Well it would be a very odd Diamond indeed if you saw it near the Gold Coast, it's only about 800 k's outside their range :-) Quote:
Originally Posted by crazywhiteboy iv found many snakes doing just that in binna barra np west of the gold coast mostly carpet pythons the odd diamond python and once a tiger snake |
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06-May-07, 06:46 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by boa Well it would be a very odd Diamond indeed if you saw it near the Gold Coast, it's only about 800 k's outside their range :-) | Plenty of ppl have seen them around that area, perhaps they are just coastals dressed up as diamonds  |
06-May-07, 07:00 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | |
Well they have been keeping it very quiet, does anyone have a photo of a Queensland Diamond ? Or are they like the Loch Ness monster ;-) I do remember seeing a thread on here a little while ago about someone having seen a Diamond up here somewhere but it was generally thought of as being a case of mis identification. If you think about it logically how/why would Diamonds exist 700 or 800k's south then become intergrades, then coastals and then Diamonds again co existing with coastals, it really doesn't make a lot of sense.
If someone shows me a photo I will be a believer.
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06-May-07, 07:09 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | |
They may not be diamonds exactly, but they have the same type of markings. I have seen atleast one(possibly others when i was younger) that has the diamond shaped pattern and looked the same as a dull diamond.
Im not sure what actually defines a diamond carpet from a coastal carpet so i cant say if they are definately diamonds, but plenty of ppl have seen them and they look the same. I know ppl who wouldnt believe me when i told them diamonds dont live in the area simply because they had seen so many that look the same.
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06-May-07, 08:25 PM
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there are no daimonds in qld, just carpets that look nothing like daimonds, im with boa all the way on this one.
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06-May-07, 08:39 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TrueBlue there are no daimonds in qld, just carpets that look nothing like daimonds, im with boa all the way on this one. | didnt know you had seen them all, im sorry that so many ppl are trpping out and seeing things that dont exist  Apart from the pattern(i have personally seen this can be the same) what else would make them look nothing like diamonds?
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06-May-07, 08:53 PM
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Like Rob says there are no Diamonds in Queensland, it just isn't possible. I am willing to accept that it is POSSIBLE there is an isolated population of escaped Diamonds that have established themselves near the Gold Coast but I am only saying it is theoretically possible. None of these people who have seen these Diamonds have a photo of one ? I am sure someone after all these yaers would have documented evidence to show the existence of Diamond pythons in that area. I have no doubt there are coastals with reduced pattern and a dark background colour which could look superficially like a very ordinary intergrade, maybe. It's like saying I have seen Water Pythons in the wild in Gosford. I'm not having a go at you Cris but it just isn't possible. Having said that if I am shown proof I will be the first to raise my hand and apologise.
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