Best Herping spots

[peterjohnson64]

My place seems to be a good place if you like blueys, beardies, browns and blacks. And you can;t take them form the wild here, they do it themselves. I've had RBB's inside and always get beardies on the outside of my lizard pit. the poor old blueys are always getting attacked by neighbours dogs.

And hey sherman. with a name like "sherman" and a place full of ordnance you wouldn't be in the military would you?

[munkee]

The bluies love my place too, I have one possibly two that live on my block of land on its own. My brother wandering home from a pub drunk one night saw a 6ft carpet on the pathway. The road to my mums has beardies at a few points (near dams usually). Ideally I would like to see more monitors and snakes. I'm a big fan of the primeval thunder lizard look.

A year ago Mum vacuumed a small RBB that was sheltering in the tea towels in the kitchen.

[peterjohnson64]

My daughter's friend lives at Silverdae and they have a regular visitor to their chicken pen eating their eggs. It is a 4 foot lacie. They took a photo for us and want us to take the lizard. Of course, we wont but they are nice people and won't hurt the lizard or even try to get rid of it. Not everyone is bad.

[newtosnakes]

I would love to come with you if you guys are planning a herp trip. Would really love to see some animals in their natural environment....

Originally Posted by peterjohnson64

My place seems to be a good place if you like blueys, beardies, browns and blacks. And you can;t take them form the wild here, they do it themselves. I've had RBB's inside and always get beardies on the outside of my lizard pit. the poor old blueys are always getting attacked by neighbours dogs.

And hey sherman. with a name like "sherman" and a place full of ordnance you wouldn't be in the military would you?

hehehe, the sherman nick name didnt come from anything military, but yeah, im in the circus...oh, i meant Army!! lol

[peterjohnson64]

Yeah mate, I'm ex-army and have seem squillions of herps during my paid visits to the donga. The Sherman thing did throw me though 'cause there aint any tanks or even APC's now in Sydney is there? And I guess you are referring to Holdsowrthy areas?

Yeah, the range out there is pristine environment cause we look after it now with all the tree hugging rules in place. Cant even dig pooh pits anymore!! lol Last time i did some work out there i was stopping every couple of hundred metres to check out the snakes basking on the roads. So i think this year should be a good year for it out there, i might even head out there this weekend if the weather looks alright.

And yeah, all the big hardware moved up to the north years ago, they've got a nice little choco APC squadron there still though.

[Memphis_Tank]

Being in Western NSW it is not uncommon to see snakes inthe local shopping car park. A group of mates and i regularly book hunting properties for our herping trips and the silence at the end of the phone is very funny when you say we will be using a 5.5megapixel semi auto-matic kodak. We often find very rare herps and those that are a completely different morph. One christmas we were lucky enough to find 3 wild womas, and that was in NSW. Some other fantastic sites have been pure bright orange collets, pure white shinglebacks not albino, beardies of all wonderful colours. And the best part is they are still seen on our trips. The other day we actually caught some young fellas catching lizards and snakes along the river and we cut them a deal, if you let them go and you get your licence you can come around to my house and i will give you a reptile of your choice, and they did they used my printer for the licence application and they have picked out pythons, water dragons, shinglebacks, blue tongues and the little fella wanted a turtle. My Logic by me giving them some herps that i have bred that havent cost me anything means that the natural populations remain and they will be there for people to see or run from in years to come.

Top stuff M_T, you'll always be good to the hobby mate!!!!!

[Memphis_Tank]

Oh Shucks!! Just count me in on ya field trip, whats a 6-7hour drive to stand in the way of a herping adventure. Does anyone know of any good herping spots near Ulladulla? PM if you would rather not advertise. I have a canoe this year to get around burrell lake to see if there are any joe blakes. Last year i went out on a fishing trawler to see if i could catch my first sea snake but it was around the same time as the tidal wave in asia and it sent too cold a currents and i didnt catch any, maybe this year.

[crackers]

I could keep telling stories like this all night long. Splitmore is correct, there are many honest people out there, but alas there are also a few dishonest people. These people spoil it for everyone else. The trouble is you can not tell who the bad ones are, so it is best to never give a exact location were animals will be found. They always someone who is willing to do the wrong thing.[/quote]


come on people...your talking 15 25 years ago, sure it prob still happens but there are rules in place now and penalties for those people foolish enough to go after wild herps
should we stop bird watching? , no more fishing from rivers, sould plant enthusiasts not be aloud to go hikeing?
why should the honest people miss out on a bit of herp spotting??

ive just moved down from NT where the reptile life is just fantastic.
came across 7 keelbacks, a black head (whent straight through our feet during a tea break), a banded tree snake, two browns and a few others that i couldnt identify on the jatbula trail near Katherine
another good spot for red bellies is on the track to bendethra caves (NSW), saw 4 of em in one day!