A Cairns resident has stumbled across a 7 metre snake skin on his daily walk near a creek in the suburb of Freshwater.
Stuart Morris, who lives in the suburb of Freshwater said he initially thought the snake was a native scrub python that had shed its skin, but on closer inspection he decided that it had been skinned.
Snake expert David Walton said the skin appeared to belong to a reticulated python from South-East Asia, and said it was a mystery as to how the snake came to end up in Australia.