Broome, WA

One of the locals told us that the Conservation department here keeps a few snakes for education purposes. They seemed very happy to let me take the kids in although it is not something they advertise. So Ciaran and Romany got up close with a couple of Pythons. They had a couple of even bigger snakes than these but just let them slither over our feet on the floor.
These little Stimpsons Pythons apparently make quite good pets being hardy and easily handled
The venomous snakes they wisely kept in cages but showed us them being woken up. The Ranger told us that at this time of the year with the breeding season starting and the weather warming up (now 32 deg daytime and 14deg at night) they are getting 5 or so calls a day round the town to come and pick up snakes.