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So not so long ago I was over in WA for a bit more than two weeks. The trip was with my family celebrating my finishing school and was primarily with the aim of finding as many geckos as possible.
We started off in Perth where I got to see a couple new species for me, both little brown skinks. Unfortunately I didn't get very good pictures of them, just enough for ID.
After resting up at a friends in Perth we headed off the next day towards Cervantes. The drive wasn't very interesting for reptiles although we saw a V.tristis that bolted a long way ahead. We stopped for lunch near Cervantes and I got my first real photos of the trip.
Pogona minor by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pogona minor by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
After heading into Cervantes and setting up at the local caravan park we headed back out a way to a place we had been told was good for spotlighting. We did a bit of poking around waiting for dark and I turned up a pede shown in another thread. Once it was dark we were able to slowly drive the roads looking for interesting things. As it happened we found some.
First find of the night was a fat carpet crossing the road obviously just having eaten. Not wanting to disturb it we headed on letting it continue cruising, luckily not much later we found a nice slightly smaller carpet that was good for photographs.
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
and got my favourite shot of the trip.....
Morelia spilota by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Poking around some rocks and bushes found us some of the Gecko beasties we were after.
Christinus marmoratus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
and some very pretty geckos of a new species for me. (Don't you love their eyes)
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The next day we packed up camp and spent a few hours driving with few results till we arrived at a destination chosen by my sister East of Geraldton. It turns out I should let my sister choose the campsite more often as it was a great place for photographing Long Nosed Dragons and Spotlighting yielded good results.
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Tiliqua occipitalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Tiliqua rugosa by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Spotlighting that night.
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus eyrei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus eyrei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
While there were plenty of herps here our main aim geckos didn't end up working so well so with that in mind we decided to speed up a bit and head straight up to Kalbarri with its many interesting gecko species.
Most of the herping we did around Kalbarri was at night time and we managed to find a fair bunch of nice geckos not all of which will be posted here due to better shots later in the trip.
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
This was very exciting for me as I absolutely love these geckos.
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus albopunctatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We spent a couple days poking around Kalbarri before heading off to Shark Bay. On the way we found some interesting things.
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Shark Bay was absolutely amazing. Tons of geckos and other interesting reptiles.
Lucasium alboguttatum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium alboguttatum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
(I never tired of taking pics of this species)
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra variegata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus michaelseni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus michaelseni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Neelaps bimaculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Neelaps bimaculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus ornatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pygopus nigriceps by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pygopus nigriceps by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus strophurus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus strophurus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Poking around in the day found some nice dragons, skinks and monitors.
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus eremius (1) by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus gouldii (4) by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Our mission of geckoing shark bay complete (despite dissapointment that we didn't find Pletholax gracilis) we headed inland to check out some of the Murchison.
The Murchison was good to us and our list of geckos quickly hiked.
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Oedura marmorata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis rex by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis rex by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Rhyncoedura ornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We also managed to track down some desert frogs in a waterhole in a creek.
Platyplectrum spenceri by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Litoria rubella by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Litoria rubella by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Despite being a gecko person I did do some day herping in the Murchison and came up with some pics of these nice dragons.
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The trip was winding down, but we still had 2 more Southwest Strophurus to see. This situation was clearly unacceptable so we rang a friend and figured out a location we could definitely see both of them. Luck was on our side and we quickly and easily found one.
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The other I had been told was almost never ever sited off spinifex, so I spent hours walking around scanning spinifex hoping for a glint of eyeshine. Eventually I found the gecko... in the middle of the road. She was missing her tail so I won't post full body shots they look weird.
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We saw a couple other interesting reptiles here too.
Lucasium maini by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium maini by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Liopholis inornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Liopholis inornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
There was only one thing left to do on this trip. That was to go back to Perth and put in some feeble effort to see a couple more things. Unfortunately it rained when we got back and reptiles weren't great but we did manage to track down some nice frogs and a gecko I had seen before.
Oedura reticulata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Myobatrachus gouldii by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Please let me know if you see any typos in htis. I'll probably be editing it a few times just to fix this and that up.
We started off in Perth where I got to see a couple new species for me, both little brown skinks. Unfortunately I didn't get very good pictures of them, just enough for ID.
After resting up at a friends in Perth we headed off the next day towards Cervantes. The drive wasn't very interesting for reptiles although we saw a V.tristis that bolted a long way ahead. We stopped for lunch near Cervantes and I got my first real photos of the trip.
Pogona minor by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pogona minor by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus adelaidensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
After heading into Cervantes and setting up at the local caravan park we headed back out a way to a place we had been told was good for spotlighting. We did a bit of poking around waiting for dark and I turned up a pede shown in another thread. Once it was dark we were able to slowly drive the roads looking for interesting things. As it happened we found some.
First find of the night was a fat carpet crossing the road obviously just having eaten. Not wanting to disturb it we headed on letting it continue cruising, luckily not much later we found a nice slightly smaller carpet that was good for photographs.
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Morelia spilota imbricata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
and got my favourite shot of the trip.....
Morelia spilota by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Poking around some rocks and bushes found us some of the Gecko beasties we were after.
Christinus marmoratus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
and some very pretty geckos of a new species for me. (Don't you love their eyes)
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The next day we packed up camp and spent a few hours driving with few results till we arrived at a destination chosen by my sister East of Geraldton. It turns out I should let my sister choose the campsite more often as it was a great place for photographing Long Nosed Dragons and Spotlighting yielded good results.
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Amphibolurus longirostris by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Tiliqua occipitalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Tiliqua rugosa by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Spotlighting that night.
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Antaresia stimsoni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Brachyurophis semifasciata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus eyrei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus eyrei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
While there were plenty of herps here our main aim geckos didn't end up working so well so with that in mind we decided to speed up a bit and head straight up to Kalbarri with its many interesting gecko species.
Most of the herping we did around Kalbarri was at night time and we managed to find a fair bunch of nice geckos not all of which will be posted here due to better shots later in the trip.
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
This was very exciting for me as I absolutely love these geckos.
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus albopunctatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We spent a couple days poking around Kalbarri before heading off to Shark Bay. On the way we found some interesting things.
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus nuchalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus caudolineatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Shark Bay was absolutely amazing. Tons of geckos and other interesting reptiles.
Lucasium alboguttatum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium alboguttatum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
(I never tired of taking pics of this species)
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus levis ocidentalis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heteronotia binoei by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra variegata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus michaelseni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus michaelseni by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Neelaps bimaculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Neelaps bimaculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus ornatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pygopus nigriceps by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Pygopus nigriceps by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus strophurus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus strophurus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus spinigerus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Poking around in the day found some nice dragons, skinks and monitors.
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus maculatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus reticulatus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus eremius (1) by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Varanus gouldii (4) by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Our mission of geckoing shark bay complete (despite dissapointment that we didn't find Pletholax gracilis) we headed inland to check out some of the Murchison.
The Murchison was good to us and our list of geckos quickly hiked.
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium squarrosum by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Nephrurus vertebralis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Gehyra punctata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus wellingtonae by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Oedura marmorata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis rex by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis rex by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Diplodactylus granariensis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Rhyncoedura ornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We also managed to track down some desert frogs in a waterhole in a creek.
Platyplectrum spenceri by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Litoria rubella by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Litoria rubella by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Despite being a gecko person I did do some day herping in the Murchison and came up with some pics of these nice dragons.
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Ctenophorus caudicinctus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The trip was winding down, but we still had 2 more Southwest Strophurus to see. This situation was clearly unacceptable so we rang a friend and figured out a location we could definitely see both of them. Luck was on our side and we quickly and easily found one.
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus assimilis by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
The other I had been told was almost never ever sited off spinifex, so I spent hours walking around scanning spinifex hoping for a glint of eyeshine. Eventually I found the gecko... in the middle of the road. She was missing her tail so I won't post full body shots they look weird.
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Strophurus elderi by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
We saw a couple other interesting reptiles here too.
Lucasium maini by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Lucasium maini by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Liopholis inornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Liopholis inornata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
There was only one thing left to do on this trip. That was to go back to Perth and put in some feeble effort to see a couple more things. Unfortunately it rained when we got back and reptiles weren't great but we did manage to track down some nice frogs and a gecko I had seen before.
Oedura reticulata by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Heleioporus psammophilus by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Myobatrachus gouldii by Stephen Mahony, on Flickr
Please let me know if you see any typos in htis. I'll probably be editing it a few times just to fix this and that up.
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