‘Holy sh-t’: Gold Coast woman left shaken after double snake encounter

A Gold Coast woman has been left shaken after she encountered two snakes in one morning, with one giving her and a local snake catcher the slip.

A Gold Coast woman has been left shaken after she encountered two snakes in one morning with one giving her and a local snake catcher the slip.

April Werz, from Mudgeeraba, said she was on her morning walk with her dog before she heard “lots of birds squawking” and suddenly saw a silver and brown snake two meters from her car.

“I looked on the ground and there was a snake there and I just thought holy sh**,”

the 53-year-old said.

The snake being removed from the car.

She said the snake crawled under the car, but disappeared.

“I was with the dog and I thought I’d wait it out but it wasn’t moving on. I reversed out and it was gone so I went home and called the snake guy,” she said.

But when the snake catcher popped the bonnet on her Subaru forester, to Ms Werz’s surprise, a different snake was curled up on her engine.

“It wasn’t the snake that I saw and that was absolutely crazy,” she said.

“The other snake looked completely different size and pattern, the first one was much quicker moving and smaller.”

Ms Werz said she was left with a “strange feeling” after the separate encounters.

“There’s just snakes everywhere at the moment.

“I wasn’t sure if it was going to come out while I was driving I wasn’t sure if there was” she said.

The snake being removed from April Werz's car

Hudson’s Snake Catching Snake Catcher Tom Faulkner said Ms Werz was freaked out when she called him to come check her car.

“She looked at it and just said that’s not the snake I saw,” he said.

Mr Faulkner said after removing the carpet python, he turned the heaters on full blast, searched everywhere with an inspection camera and the first snake was nowhere.

“The python would’ve climbed up under the engine it was about 1.5m,” he said.

Mr Faulkner said the snake was safely relocated to the closet conservation park.

“We have been getting way more car call-outs recently,” he said.

Mr Faulkner said it could be because it is breeding season.