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Deadly brown snake surfs the waves at beach in Forster, NSW
It has been the summer of the sea creatures first with sharks disrupting swimmers and now a reptile.
Visitors and lifeguards at One Mile beach at Forster on the NSW mid-north coast were shocked to see a highly venomous eastern brown snake emerge from the surf yesterday morning.
Beachgoer Olivia Moffatt, who took this photograph of the snake as it slithered up onto the beach right between the flags, told the Great Lakes Advocate that lifeguards blew whistles to warn people in the surf of the reptile in their midst.
Tourists and locals fled from the water after the whistles were blown, she said.
At first people were concerned it may have been a shark, only to discover a 1.5m brown snake.
The snake travelled out of the water and remained on the shore for a while until waves washed up against it.
Raising its head, it headed for shade towards the lifeguard trailer and happily sat there until again moving up along the beach to the bush.
On the way, as we were leaving, the snake began heading back down towards the sea at a quicker pace, but was not in the ocean as we left.
Brown snakes are known to frequent sand dunes along the NSW coast in search of rodents and other prey.
The species is considered one of the worlds most venomous terrestrial snakes and can grow up to 2.4m in length.
