07/12/2025
This cheeky derp head is why I'm currently rubbing Aloe on my sunburnt face at 10:00pm.
I recieved a call from a local Highschool just before 9:30 this morning.
I was in the middle of a workplace snake safety session, so was unable to answer, so quickly screenshot the number and sent it through to fellow local relocator Jordan to call back and get the details for.
After I finished the Toolbox meeting, I checked our Relocator Job-share chat to see Jordan had posted that it was my daughters school! 😂😂
I rang them back to see how they were getting on and was told the snake was playing silly buggers and was hiding from our newest relocator Maiya under an immovable metal frame. So I headed out to see if I could offer any assistance.
I arrived just before 10:30am and Maiya and I spent the next hour and a half in the roasting sun trying every trick in the book to get our stubborn little mate out if his hiding spot INCLUDING tearing up the brick paving under the ledge at the suggestion of a very impressive student!
But even after that, no snake. He'd squeezed himself through a tiny wall gap.
In the end we had to concede defeat, and admit that we'd both been outsmarted by a snake 🫣
So we began the waiting game....a very loooooong game.
But sure enough, centimetre by very cautious centimetre our shy friend slowly emerged.
We waited, practically holding our breaths, until he was completely clear of the gap, then I walked behind him to cut him off incase he doubled back, while Maiya slowly & gently offered him the catch bag, which thankfully he thought was a pretty neat place to hang out. 😅
A huge thank you to all the staff at the College for all their help with this one.
Talk about a team effort!
Thank you Sam for this great shot of our clever mate peering at us with great suspicion as he slowly made his way out.
That face! 😂😂
And last of all, CONGRATULATIONS to Maiya for her first solo catch! 🥳🎉✨️🎊
It certainly wasn't an easy one!
Big hearts saving little lives 💚 🐍
Save my number in your phone under SNAKE CATCHER-0433 590 721
Go on! Do it. Do it now!
