Snake in a car | Noosa Today

By Margaret Maccoll

One of the last things you want to find slithering across your dashboard on a trip to the shops is a snake but that was the reality for one woman at the Noosa Junction IGA car park this week.

Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher Stuart McKenzie was phoned by the frantic woman who had just returned to her car after a shop at the IGA and discovered the brown coloured snake.

Stuart said the snake disappeared from sight into the air vent but his snake catcher, Nat, managed to encourage it back out of the vent.

The common tree snake was safely captured for release in a more appropriate spot.

Stuart said with January generally their busiest month of the year it had been a hectic time for Sunshine Coast Snake…