For close on a century, the snake man has been a weekend and holiday fixture in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse.
You could only guess at how many parents and wide-eyed children have peered into the pit and watched almost mesmerised as the snake man shared his patch with some of the most deadliest creatures on Earth.
It's gone on generation after generation, father to son, but at 72, the snake man is hanging up his stick and a tradition will come to an end this Sunday.
Geoff Sims has spent some time with the snake man, also known as John Cann.
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