Best Herping spots

[HATCHMASTER]

thanks fuscus for revealing one of many top herp spots within twenty mins from my place.but i have to say i am doing my bit for the protection of these animals.i own a small farm not far from fuscus's mentioned spot and have placed many hides eg:sheets of tin,hollow logs small wood piles and rock piles.throughout my property were i can view numerous reptiles in a natural environment,throughtout the year.and with saying that should mention that any tresspassers or poches will be shot and if survive prosecuted as there in my land and under my protection but are free to come and go as they please and i do not interfere with these reptiles in anyway.i have my own captive reptiles and am just privleged to have wild reptiles just out my backdoor.

[BROWNS]

I think that was the apalachacola"spelling?" kingsnake tommo.Was very interesting i thought and sad at the same time.

The Palmerston highway has also taken out a fair bit of prime jungle country in Nth Qld..

[hey_im_sam]

my mate from Queensland bragging how he and his friends from SA had caught over 40 Scrubs up to 17ft long and had taken 3 trips to carry them all out of the gorge. They were sold on the blackmarket in the southern states.

Pieces like that are so sad... and make you so cautious. Like you said, this guy was your mate! Assumedly, somone you thought you could trust Sucks when things like this happen, stories of humans *******ing up our world upset me more than any other.

[Greg]

Did anyone notice how this thread was going quite nicely. There were differring opinions and points of view being put across in a reasonably fair manner and then all of a sudden someone comes along and makes it personal and starts having a go at someone for voicing an opinion different to their own?






Greg.

[AGAMIDAE]

Sorry fuscus.......TOP SECRET.....

[Sdaji]

People who will go out and do something like take 40 scrubbies aught to be shot. I couldn't really care if they'd gone and taken a pair for themself or something, but something like that is absurd. I've heard stories of a guy who took 90 thick tailed geckoes and another guy who came back to Melbourne with 47 pyrrhus, these are two second hand stories I hope are untrue but tend to think aren't. I've seen literally piles of thick tailed geckoes in pet shops which were obviously wild caught (quite possibly from the same lot I heard about), it's horrible but makes commercial sense (I'm not saying it's good, just that I can see that they have a motive). What you would do with 47 adult pyrrhus I just can't imagine. Some people need their heads read. It's bad enough selling off the babies when you ligitimately breed reptiles in those numbers. This is the kind of thing that makes me think pet shops are bad.

I know of a great herping spot in sydney, probably the best and most preserved. But only i can get in and only people escorted by me can also.

So i can take people if they like this spring/summer, but try and get back in the place and you will find yourself in deeper feacal waste than the tassie tiger.

Also, if you havent got a good eye for identifying un-exploded ordanance you could see yourself losing a leg or two, maybe even more than that.

So who wants to check the place out with me??

[Bryony]

I'm disapointed now.........
i didn't think people could be so.......selfish, inconsiderate and just plain old crap.
Now cause of these people, some of the best herping spots are no more.....and the people that know good herping spots wont tell people, so history wont repeat itself.....some how i think we are getting the short straw......

i hate humans

[Sdaji]

I'd love to check it out, Team! Tell the poachers about it without the warnings

[dugadugabowbow]

It's sad fact of life Bry, it only takes a few idiots to ruin it for everyone, even worse those idiots have acess to the internet.

[peterescue]

I wanna go, I wanna go.

[Bryony]

yay peter and i will go with ya sherms!

[peterescue]

I'll put all terrain tyres on the wheelchair.

[Hix]

Hey Sherm - that's not the ADI site, is it?

Hix

[hugsta]

So who wants to check the place out with me??

I'm there Shermy, tell me when and where....


I think it's sad that almost everyone who's posted on here knows of someone or heard a story of someone stealing herps from the wild. I met a guy once whilst with a friend looking at some herps to buy. He openly bragged about heading up north and coming home with over 40 ackies, 50 vitties, sand goannas and a few perenties. I was blown away that this guy had the hide to assume that I was ok with it.
The person I went with apparently told the appropriate authorities, but what happened from there I'm not sure. But hopefully he got what he deserved.