The warmer weather has heralded the start of snake season — but in the heart of Fremantle’s CBD?

Jo Gregan from DFK Port Accounting was at the back of her office at 91 High Street last week and was amazed to see a dugite slithering under the air-conditioning unit. “We rang the council, the parks and wildlife, then they put us onto Steve Smartt who very obligingly came immediately,” Ms Gregan says.

The veteran snake-catcher, pictured left with the dugite, reckons it’s very rare to find an urbanised serpent. This one will be heading bush somewhere.