Snake Catcher Cremorne
If you need a snake catcher in Cremorne, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Urban Reptile Removal attends Cremorne every day of the year — usually on site within 30 minutes.
Stay calm and keep your distance. Move children and pets clear of the area, but keep your eyes on the snake from a safe spot. The most useful thing you can do before we arrive is maintain visual contact — a snake that's been watched is far easier to find. You don't need to take a photo or identify the species — just watch where it goes.
About Cremorne
Cremorne sits on a peninsula bordered by Mosman Bay to the east, Shell Cove to the west and the harbour foreshore wrapping the southern tip at Cremorne Point. The character is established Federation and Inter-war residential — substantial blocks, mature canopy, formal gardens, sandstone retaining walls, and a layout where almost every street ends at a foreshore reserve, a bay or a bushland finger. The peninsula geography produces a quietly reliable diamond python suburb — the older roof cavities sustain a resident population that moves through the foreshore reserves year after year.
Golden Crowned Snakes, like this one, are one of the most common snakes we find in Cremorne.
What we see in Cremorne
Diamond pythons . The bushland connections to the harbour foreshore reserves and the mature roof cavities of the established housing stock sustain a resident population. Roof cavity callouts are the standout job category through the warmer months, with pergolas, garages and pool sheds also regular hiding spots.
Red-bellied black snakes are uncommon but present — they appear in properties with pools or ponds near the bushland reserves, particularly through summer.
Golden-crowned snakes are the most common species we attend in the area, and show up in the sandstone country and shaded leaf-litter gardens after summer rain. Venomous but their bite is medically minor.
Blue-tongued lizards and Eastern water dragons are part of Cremorne's everyday wildlife. Water dragons in particular are common along the foreshore reserves and the formal gardens. Many of the snake calls we attend turn out to be one of these — never an issue, always happy to attend and confirm.
Where snakes go on Cremorne properties
The hiding spots reflect the peninsula-and-foreshore character: roof cavities and eaves for pythons, in pool sheds and garages, under decking and pergolas, behind hot water systems, around pool pumps and filtration boxes, in thick damp garden beds, along sandstone retaining walls, under garden edging, behind air-conditioning units, in formal hedge structures, and through the gaps between the house and the back reserve or foreshore boundary. We work through them methodically once we arrive.
After we leave
Every Urban Reptile Removal job ends with a brief walk-through of the property. We tell you why the snake was likely there, what's drawing it in, and what you can change to reduce future activity — short grass, no clutter along the fence line, stored items lifted off the ground, gaps sealed where rodents travel, and no pet food bowls left outside overnight. No snake repellent sprays, no gimmicks. Just the things that actually work.
Call Urban Reptile Removal — Snake Catcher Cremorne
For a snake catcher in Cremorne, CALL NOW on 0418 633 474. Snake in the roof, snake in the pool shed, snake in the garden, snake near the foreshore — every day of the year. Urban Reptile Removal.
About Chris Williams
Urban Reptile Removal is run by Chris Williams, a professional snake catcher and herpetologist with 35 years of experience across the Greater Sydney region. Chris has worked at Taronga Zoo and the Australian Reptile Park, founded Snake Ranch (Australia's largest reptile breeding facility), and has published seven books on Australian reptiles. He has been President of the Australian Herpetological Society since 2014. He licences and trains the catchers who attend jobs across the Urban Reptile Removal network. If you're calling Urban Reptile Removal, you're calling people who know what they're doing.
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