Snake ID

Gday Rumpig
I'm impressed with the letter box....
I am still not in contact with my little brother , he lives north of Brisbane , up near Redcliff somewhere....

Coastal taipan? No, seriously, looks like a common tree snake. Snakes are lovely animals.

mmmm, reminds me of when we were kids. We lived rural and all the letterboxes for the road were on a letterbox 'tree' right near where we'd ride out bikes to catch the school bus of a morning. People would drive up to the letterbox tree and just reach in from the car window to get the letters or to post mail and put up the flag. Anyway, everytime it flooded we'd run around and collect up a few fresh water crays that'd just be walking around, and put them in our 'favourite' people's letterbox ;)
Harmless fun that would inevitably end up in a dose of the strap.......worth it though to see some of the reactions :)

On topic - tree snake.

looks like we were correct in thinking it was harmless then, as we thought it was a tree snake but weren't sure due to how dark it was and not really bright green (looks alot greener in the pic then i recall it looked in real life). we played it safe and left it alone, it was gone a few hours later. they've had browns and red bellied blacks aswell as big carpet snakes on the property, so plenty of variety there.
as for the letterbox needing snake proofing....with the flooding up there i guess the snakes are looking for anything high and dry, we only got out lastnight by driving through flood water that was receeding, after being stuck on the property since Sunday morning when the creek came up (backs up from The Mary River)
cheers
for the replies

Reminds me of the last Brisbane floods when from memory a Telstra bloke went to a pit in an area which had been flooded and found half a dozen or so "nasties" had either taken refuge or somehow been deposited there. Made the national news. Poor bloke's probably still having nightmares.

It is a green tree snake. Some of them can be very blue in colour believe it or not