soggyboots's Identifications

We saw a monitor lizard on the path and it ran off as we got closer. Then we realized there was a snake as well. After a while the snake moved into a tussock of grass and I saw that it had a gash 1/3 up it's body from its tail.

We walked back down from Goolman lookout 20 minutes later and the snake was sitting on some sand in the shade not moving (3rd photo) we assume it had died :(

I didn't think it was right to not help the snake as it was a predator-prey interaction and the monitor would probably come back later for the snake.