Clicking a picture of her two-year-toddler, a mom in Australia got a shock of her life when she noticed a deadly Eastern Brown snake just a few inches away from her daughter.
The mother of four was waiting for her elder children and decided to utilise the time clicking photos of her youngest.
She heard something move but thought it was nothing but the windy weather. Only seconds later she noticed a snake almost two feet long crawling near little Molly leg. “It’s really windy here so I thought it was a bit of bark flying from the tree. Looked up to see this massive brown had just passed my 2 year old,” she wrote.
The picture was shared on Facebook by mom Bianca Dickinson on March 29 and it has since gone viral. It has collected over 22,000 reactions and more than 9,600 shares so far.
Ms Dickinson was waiting for her older children when she decided to click a photo of her two-year-old.
"I was out taking a photo of my daughter for Jodie and thought I saw something move! It's really windy here so I thought it was a bit of bark flying from the tree. Looked up to see this massive brown had just passed my 2-year-old," Ms Dickinson says on Facebook.
Luckily, the snake slithered away without harming Molly at all. "I can't believe it didn't touch her," Ms Dickinson says on Facebook.
And while she's glad her daughter is safe, she can't seem to get over the incident.
She didn't realize she had captured the moment in her camera until she told her kids about it.
"When I got home I was telling the older kids how big the snake was as they were in the vicinity too and one of them asked me if I got a pic of it. I didn't know it at the time but yes I did! It was at least 2m long! It's still making me sick looking at this," she says on Instagram.
