I quite like snakes. Youngest was very fond of them to the point that we used to have an annual zoo pass, and if we had time to stop in at the zoo before collecting the older two from school, we would go in to the reptile house and nowhere else! They were very excited one school holidays to discover that there was a reptile education stall set up at one of the local shopping centres, and they got to hold a snake. Not something local from memory.