OK, so unfortunately the goanna isn't exactly front and centre in this pic, but you get the idea. I took Calixte (Cal) up to Border Ranges yesterday (see blog post below) and we happened to see a goodly number of reptiles, which we both enjoyed. Several turtles and water dragons in the creeks that we passed over plus 4 lace goannas crossing the road up to and through the national park
Cal learned that goannas will always climb a tree on the side opposite to the human observer but he did manage this shot
and the best sighting at all was a very healthy, thick, gorgeous red bellied black snake by the side of the road...
which I gently moved off the road and into the bush. There are virtually no black snakes left further down where we are because of the toads (black snakes are frog eaters; toads look like frogs; snake bites toad and cops a mouthful of toxin and dies; no more black snakes). It seems the toad doesn't like the higher altitudes ( we are about 700 metres asl here) which means the black snakes are eating frogs and not toads.
OK, so unfortunately the goanna isn't exactly front and centre in this pic, but you get the idea. I took Calixte (Cal) up to Border Ranges yesterday (see blog post below) and we happened to see a goodly number of reptiles, which we both enjoyed. Several turtles and water dragons in the creeks that we passed over plus 4 lace goannas crossing the road up to and through the national park
Cal learned that goannas will always climb a tree on the side opposite to the human observer but he did manage this shot
and the best sighting at all was a very healthy, thick, gorgeous red bellied black snake by the side of the road...
which I gently moved off the road and into the bush. There are virtually no black snakes left further down where we are because of the toads (black snakes are frog eaters; toads look like frogs; snake bites toad and cops a mouthful of toxin and dies; no more black snakes). It seems the toad doesn't like the higher altitudes ( we are about 700 metres asl here) which means the black snakes are eating frogs and not toads.
3 comments:
OMG what are you doing?
just shifting the snake off the road so it wouldn't get run over...it was still fairly coolish so the snake was quite slow moving
yuk !
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