Yes that is at least a 2 metre long, fully intact coast carpet python skin in my passionfruit vine! At the very far left top you can see the tail tip just above the horizontal wire, then it travels up, and across to the far right, and if you look down to the lower right corner there is the head.
I have never seen one so completely intact, so that passionfruit must have worked well for the job!
I thought it was amazing after seeing that one in the tree at the other end of the property to find this one shedding beside my kitchen.
Not photographically amazing, but I wanted to share it :) Hope you found it a bit wow, even those who are not fond of snakes.
I’m not snake phobic but if I saw the snake inside that skin I would put distance between us. We get mountain rattle snakes which are not the agressive kind. They prefer to stay clear of us.
@jacqbb the head was reasonably intact on this skin, but the ants were making a very fast attack on it all. You can just make out the head pointing back to the tail tip. It would have moved through at night as that is the best time to hunt rats, so I'd be unlikely to get to spot him in the day. @shutterbug49 these are pretty placid snakes, but when I do see them inside their skins, I just give them their space don't worry :)
@s4sayer I'm starting to suspect, by the number and frequency of skins I've found the past couple of months, that this home has more than one :) No wonder I haven't seen any rat evidence for more than a year!
@rickster549 oh I hope it's my resident, although I'm thinking I may have a nice pair maybe as one shed only just before xmas so this must be another. they are amazing ratters and of course mice too. sadly they will eat the green tree frogs, but that's all part of the balance :)
@shutterbug49 these are pretty placid snakes, but when I do see them inside their skins, I just give them their space don't worry :)