Once again, to get the best out of the pics, you need to click on them to enlarge them. Last night Cal and I headed off to Mt Nardi, in the Nightcap National Park, about ten minutes north of Nimbin, to look for any snakes and other reptiles which might come out to soak up the warmth in the road. Our first find for the evening was this baby carpet python on Stony Chute Road, about ten minutes from our place. Very cute.
We then drove through Nimbin and up towards Mt Nardi. About ten minutes before Mt Nardi we encountered this quite large blind snake, probably Rhamphotyphlops proxima. It was certainly the largest blind snake (they eat bulldog ants's eggs and larvae) that I had ever seen. Very smelly too, it emitted a rather pungent aroma in retaliation to our handling it.
Then, once we were at the trailhead, we encountered three leaf tailed geckos, about 18cm - 20 cm long - absolute beauties..head down on the walls of a toilet building, waiting for some unwary spider or insect.
You can see why they are called leaf-tails, can't you.
Our final find for the evening was on the way home, again on Stony Chute Road - a lovely sub-adult pink tongued skink, was moving across the road. Beautiful, if bitey, skink. Thanks to Cal for the images and company.
Once again, to get the best out of the pics, you need to click on them to enlarge them. Last night Cal and I headed off to Mt Nardi, in the Nightcap National Park, about ten minutes north of Nimbin, to look for any snakes and other reptiles which might come out to soak up the warmth in the road. Our first find for the evening was this baby carpet python on Stony Chute Road, about ten minutes from our place. Very cute.
We then drove through Nimbin and up towards Mt Nardi. About ten minutes before Mt Nardi we encountered this quite large blind snake, probably Rhamphotyphlops proxima. It was certainly the largest blind snake (they eat bulldog ants's eggs and larvae) that I had ever seen. Very smelly too, it emitted a rather pungent aroma in retaliation to our handling it.
Then, once we were at the trailhead, we encountered three leaf tailed geckos, about 18cm - 20 cm long - absolute beauties..head down on the walls of a toilet building, waiting for some unwary spider or insect.
You can see why they are called leaf-tails, can't you.
Our final find for the evening was on the way home, again on Stony Chute Road - a lovely sub-adult pink tongued skink, was moving across the road. Beautiful, if bitey, skink. Thanks to Cal for the images and company.
4 comments:
Oh altogether too many snakes today! Why aren't they asleep at night time?
lol....many of our snakes become nocturnal during warm nights....they love to lie on sealed roads and absorb the heat before heading out to look for prey
OMG. Noone has ever told me that. Best not to know I think. Is it just your snakes up there? Would our brown snakes do it?
lol, when I said 'our' I meant Australia's...BUT browns are not usually nocturnal...strictly diurnal...speaking of which a poor brown was run over down on the road along our bottom paddock yesterday unfortunately.
Anyway - do you walk along country rods at night or something do you, Louise?
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