re: Fake Snake Pic?

quote:

---

I received this just now in a email thread. The text just says this

"Spotted while driving past the Morganza spillway"

It seems awfully skinny for a snake that long. I say fake...what say the board?

---

My guess is it's a taipan, landscape is definitely close to new south wales in Australia. Having spent a month there it looks like any areas between Sydney and Queensland. And they propel a little defferently than smaller snakes. They roll muscles on their abdomens instead of the characteristic slither we are used to

ETA: Their abdomens, or ground side, are very flat. Their bodies are much more triangular than ovoid