A Sunshine Coast woman has had the shock of her life, unknowingly taking a shower centimetres away from a cold-blooded surprise coiled around her toilet roll yesterday afternoon.
The Doonan woman had taken to her shower, hoping to beat the spring heat in her renovated bathroom.
Little did she know, so had this scaly home intruder.
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After half an hour, the woman finally realised that the entire time she had been showering, a five-foot long coastal carpet python had taken up refuge on the soft, three-ply surface of her loo-roll holder.
Rattled by the find, she called Luke the Snake Catcher from Snake Catcher Noosa, after snapping a photo of the snake from "a very safe distance".
Luke the Snake Catcher told 9news.com.au that people who call his business are often calm in the presence of a potentially dangerous reptile.
But not this time.
"She was not too impressed to find it"
"She was not doing well with the snake there," he said.
After retrieving the python, it was discovered the snake had come up through a hole in the floor of the bathroom made while the owner was doing renovations on the bathroom.
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Coastal Carpet Pythons are one of the most common breed of snakes on the Sunshine Coast and south-east Queensland.
As a result, Luke the Snake Catcher said "they're the ones that we get in the most random spots."
And after sharing the catch with his local community, he predicts that a lot of people will be checking their toilet rolls this spring.
