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18-Sep-05, 03:26 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | | RBB + other herps on our bushwalk today...(dial up warning)
My two boys, my nephew and I went for our first bush walk in over 6 months.
Made sure we brought the camera of course and look what we found... (Zac scared the RRB away before I could get any more pictures.)
The diamond python was a little agro at first until it got used to being held. (Both my boys got to to have a little pat) I let it go a little bit into the bush as there were lots of people around and wanted to make sure it would be safe.
All in all it was a very successful day (esp. considering this was just 3km of bush track right near my house!!!)
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18-Sep-05, 03:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | |
and here is the water dragon... 
and from another angle with more of his belly showing...  |
18-Sep-05, 04:05 PM
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Nice pictures.I like the ones of the water dragon.
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18-Sep-05, 04:22 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | | |
Thanks Dan! I was about half an arms length from him and he just kept looking at me, with his head on his side. Didn't seem scared of me at all (until I just couldn't help myself any longer and just had to have a pat...:roll: )
He was about 45cm SVL. In the above photo looks like his eye might have a bit of an infection... - didn't notice it a the time.
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18-Sep-05, 04:24 PM
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Wow Dude!
I saw everything I wanted when i was in Sydney except for a Diamond......... Man I'd have killed too see one! Not a snake I would keep, but what a rush it would be too see a wild one! Very jealous...
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18-Sep-05, 04:27 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-05 Location: Berra Age: 25 | | |
Sounds like an awesome day, I remember spotting a RBB in the nature reserve behind my house, scared the crap out of me  |
18-Sep-05, 04:29 PM
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Gee, what would ya do if ya found a taipan then?  |
18-Sep-05, 04:30 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: Blue Mountains, NSW | | | |
Yeah mate, not a bad day's herping!
I went out for a 5 min walk this morning behind my place and caught a yellow faced whip and a bunch of dragons and skinks. Plus I think I saw a quoll.
Whereabouts did you spot these guys?
By the way, I can't see your water dragon pics.
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18-Sep-05, 04:36 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | |
Also saw heaps of these... Does anyone know what they are?. 
They look similar to a small garden skink only bigger ~20cm (total length)
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18-Sep-05, 04:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 34  | | | |
Water skinks
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Now she moves with a predators guile
Beyond the firelit circle of life
She soothes your cold heart for a while
Then matches its beat, synching in with a knife.
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18-Sep-05, 04:55 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Austrelaps Whereabouts did you spot these guys?
By the way, I can't see your water dragon pics. | Garigal National Park, around Davidson Cemetery.
Can you see them now? (I moved them to off my personal webserver to my animalattraction gallery)
I was very pleased with myself and hope that it is a sign of things to come....
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18-Sep-05, 04:58 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: Blue Mountains, NSW | | | |
Awesome, yeah can see the pics now. Looks like the water dragon has a cataract.
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18-Sep-05, 06:19 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | |
Great pics mate, bugger payin entry to the zoo to see ozzy wildlife hey!
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18-Sep-05, 06:46 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: Melbourne | | |
far out alexr!!!  That must be SO exciting! Thanx for sharing! and it is good to see the younger ones learning an appreciation for reptiles!
Well done!  |
18-Sep-05, 07:00 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Belrose (Sydney) NSW | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by trader far out alexr!!! That must be SO exciting! | Yeah - paying for it now though... little buggers wont go to sleep far to excited. LOL!
Can't wait to go again soon... (but I think thats my yearly quota done in one hit  !)
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