Snake Photobombs Woman's Selfie After Emerging From Bushes

A snake photobombed a woman’s selfie while she was enjoying her morning walk in Brisbane, Australia.

Speaking to Yahoo News Australia on Sunday, the unidentified woman said she was taking a stroll when she stopped in order to take a photo and send it to her partner. However, when she lied down on the ground in order to take a selfie, she heard a rustling noise.

“I thought it might have been a skink,” she said, adding, “Whatever it was I thought it was about to run over my head.”

After taking the photo, the woman turned back to see something going back into the undergrowth.

“I thought, ‘surely, I didn’t get it in the photo’,” she said, adding, “I have no idea why it got so close to me.”

While checking out the photo she had captured, the woman noticed that the snake was just meters from her head.

“There were no snakes there when I sat down. I think it’s one of those one-off things, but luckily enough I was able to catch it on camera,” the woman said.

The woman then sent the photo to Stuart McKenzie of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 in order to help her identify the reptile. McKenzie said though he believes the reptile might be a red-bellied black, he wasn’t sure about it. He added that he believed the snake might have emerged from the bushes in order to soak up some sun but became frightened by the woman.

The incident comes less than a month after McKenzie relocated a huge brown snake that was found lurking near a children’s play area in Queensland, Australia. McKenzie said he received a call that a reptile was spotted on a stone path.

“We received a call this morning from a concerned resident who lived near this park in Beerwah. He sent me through some photos of a large Eastern Brown Snake that was hanging around in a dry creek bed that was less than five meters from a popular kids playground. We headed straight out and thankfully he was still there when I arrived,” he wrote in a Facebook post.

Warning the residents to be careful and contact professional snake handlers if they find snakes in public places, he said, “Please notify us if there is a venomous snake hanging around near your local park and we can assess each situation based on the info you give us. Majority of the time the snakes can be left alone and they will move on but this large eastern brown was hiding amongst the rocks so he needed to be relocated.”