Myall Lakes National Park

luckydog

Hey folks!

Yesterday was Australia Day and I took advantage of a couple of days off by going camping with my 8yo Daughter. What an incredible place with a massive variety of animals!!! In one day we saw a plethora of bird species including 5 Raptors (2 x Sea Eagle, 1 x Wedgetailed and 2 x Black Kites), Lizards, possums and even a couple of Dingoes outside our tent this morning (woke us up at 0545 howling about 5 metres from our tent). Unfortunately I either didn't have the reach or didn't have the camera handy for all of them but I did catch a few (hence the post)...

These are Lace Monitors. One of these two was a smidge over 6' long and the other was a tiny 4'6" :







Taken just after sunrise this morning.



And the budding Naturalist/Photographer...Told the missus that I think she needs a 500mm lens for a camera (I'll look after it until she buys a camera for it though :wink ).



Love the place and will head back again and again.

Rohirrim

Nice series. Neat looking lizards, although it sounds like their closer to mini-dinosaur size

ShannonW

HOLY MOLY....I wouldn't want to get to close to those! Cool pic's thanks for sharing.

luckydog

Thanks for the comments gang
The monitors were more concerned with looking for food scraps around the camp and you could get pretty close (only about 2 feet away from the one on the tree and he was bigger than me). Having said that they can really ruin your day with razor sharp teeth and powerful legs with big claws attached if they felt the need.

gus

Clean crisp shots of the goanna mate Nice exposure

Dani

beautiful

I especially like the one of the monitor in the tree, and the shot of your daughter... reminds me of myself when I was that age!!! I always had bino's and was out and about lookin for wildlife

kdog

Beautiful shots!

Dee

Question for Australians
So do you think people in Europe and the United States have exotic animals?

gus

Dee wrote:

So do you think people in Europe and the United States have exotic animals?

Dee i would like a badger if someone could wrangle me one. Seriously it would feel strange to live somewhere where you can walk in any grass/bush & look at what your photographing & not for a snake.

I walk perm scanning the ground in front of me for them.

Dee

Well, watch those rattlers!

Humungus wrote:

Dee i would like a badger if someone could wrangle me one. Seriously it would feel strange to live somewhere where you can walk in any grass/bush & look at what your photographing & not for a snake.

I walk perm scanning the ground in front of me for them.

We do have snakes, particularly in the west, and in the woods, watch out for bears.

I can count the times I've seen a snake in the wild on my fingers, but I guess you can count on your fingers the times you haven't had to watch out for them.

gus

Dee wrote:

We do have snakes, particularly in the west, and in the woods, watch out for bears.

I can count the times I've seen a snake in the wild on my fingers, but I guess you can count on your fingers the times you haven't had to watch out for them.

Dee i survived a bite from a bad one when i was a kid. The only reason im still here is that he didnt get a lot of venom in. I can still remember the car barely gripping the country dirt road as mum valve-bounced the old holden all the way to the hospital at 80 mph & the next few horrifying nights of the tornique (sp?) & pain...treatment was different then.

I am often up to an hour on foot from help & by myself so if i get a good bite from a brown or death adder then im in serious trouble. They are lightning fast snakes & aggresive in summer breeding times. I carry bite bandages & a phone always for that very reason.