'Snakes one day, crocs the next': Four-metre python slithers across an Australian street - but locals say it's nothing out of the ordinary

• The scrub python was photographed by Gabbie Thomasz while walking her dog 
• The four-metre snake stretched across the width of the road in Queensland
• Snake catcher David Walton said it was a non-venomous amethystine python 

A four-metre snake has been captured slithering across an Australian street.

The scrub python was photographed by Gabbie Thomasz while she was walking her dog in Paramatta Park in Cairns, Queensland, on Tuesday night.

She said the reptile, which stretched across the width of the road, wasn't the first she had seen in the area.

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The scrub python was photographed by Gabbie Thomasz while walking her dog in Paramatta Park in Cairns, Queensland, on Tuesday night

'But I was still in awe, it's a magnificent creature doing its thing last night,' Ms Thomasz told The Chronical. 

'I was worried because it was in the middle of the road.' 

She took a photo of the snake then continued walking Ollie - her bull-mastiff-Labrador - but it had moved on by the time she returned. 

Snake catcher David Walton said it was an amethystine python - also known as a scrub python - which is not venomous.

He said serpents have adapted to the suburban areas of Cairns.

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Gabbie Thomasz took a photo of the snake then continued walking Ollie - her bull-mastiff-labrador - but it had moved on by the time she returned

'Those pythons are quite domesticated animals. They're right in the middle of suburban Cairns and have adapted quite easily.'

Other locals said they weren't surprised to see such a large snake on the road.

'Pretty common for snakes to go through the suburbs,' one said.

'Snakes one day, crocs the next,' someone else commented, playing on the state's 'beautiful one day, perfect the next' slogan.

Mr Walton urged residents to call snake catchers to remove the reptiles, rather than attempting to do it themselves.