It's a Marsh Snake (Hemiaspis signata), the olive body colour is normal for the species and in the photo I can clearly see pale stripes around the snakes head area which fits only H. signata in that area.
marsh snake, as stephen said you can see pale markings on the head
I don’t believe that you can give a positive ID from that photo as you cannot 100% rule out a Yellow Faced Whip.
The body shape and colour is more typical of a Whip but they do overlap in those respects. The upper face stripe that can be seen looks to me to be more like green than cream or white, like it is possibly a blade of grass. It does appear to have a white lower stripe and the pale rostrum, if not lighting artefact, is characteristic of a Marsh Snake.
A Whip travels particularly swiftly once disturbed whereas a Marsh Snake would be considerably slower. Two cream stripes on the side of the face or dark ventral scales and it’s definitely a Marsh. A black comma shaped ring around the eye with the tail of the comma at the bottom and directed backwards, surrounded by a yellow ring, making the comma stand out, or light coloured ventrals, it is a Yellow Faced Whip.
I would say most probably a Marsh Snake with a slim chance it could be a Yellow-faced Whip Snake.
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You guys make me feel blind, I can hardly see anything. All I can see is a bit of white around the nose, maybe I need to look at it on my computer.
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