What happens when a blue-tongued lizard comes face to face with a red-bellied black snake?
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A Merimbula man had a front row seat to the showdown on Thursday while working on a home in Long Point.
After spotting a red-bellied black snake in the back yard, Peter Remmert began filming with his mobile phone as it approached a lizard that was sunning itself on the warm spring day.
With birds cheering on from the sidelines, the snake made a front-on approach.
Standing its ground, the blue-tongue eyed off its rival from a distance of only centimetres.
It was the snake that blinked first, turning tail and slinking away, while the blue-tongue continued lazing in its prized patch of sun.
The encounter comes only days after another local man photographed a red-bellied black snake devouring a simliar-sized brown snake on his property at Kanoona.