SKIPPING DINNER
MISSION Beach mum Lisa Delany was coming up her driveway when she spotted an ominous brown bulge in the distance.
She had just dropped her son off at the bus stop before school yesterday and decided to walk over for a closer inspection.
“I had a bad feeling about it even from a distance,” she said.
Sure enough, what she discovered was not ideal for anyone with a weak stomach.
A whopping scrub python had wrapped up a fully grown male wallaby and was slowly swallowing it head first through its extended gob.
“I felt bad because it was getting so hot,” Ms Delany said. “I put a big Bunnings umbrella to shade it while it digested but it didn’t work.”
It took about an hour and a half for the overly ambitious serpent to admit defeat.
“I wish I’d stayed to watch the whole thing but I had to go out,” Ms Delany said.
“When I got back the wallaby was there covered in saliva.
“It wasn’t a baby – it was a fully grown male. I just dragged it into the bush.”
It means a big python is out there and it is still hungry.
Ms Delany hoped it would not return for an easier meal.
“I’ve got six chooks,” she said.
Even more concerning was the proximity to a 5.5m python captured after a mammoth struggle last month, footage of which went viral on social media.