I found a Marbled Gecko last month, it wasn't a particularly pretty one and certainly not something I hadn't seen before - I have seen many thousands of them. But I was extremely surprised to find this one where I did, hiding in the wooden locking mechanism of a gate at our place in Kinglake. I assumed someone must have accidentally brought it up with firewood or something. Although given that it was a young one and I found it in March, and Marbled Geckoes lay their eggs early, it seemed that it must have hatched locally, although perhaps from a gravid female which came up in firewood last winter rather than from an established colony. Either way, they're impressive colonisers and the winter snow doesn't kill them! Elsewhere I've seen them actively hunting at around 6 degrees, so I suppose Kinglake's climate wouldn't be too harsh for them, but if that's the case I wonder why they hadn't colonised more widely thousands of years ago. Because it was a novelty to see a gecko in Kinglake, I took a picture (below). I use that gate all the time, exactly one week later I checked the same spot and to my surprise, I saw a gecko. It wasn't the same gecko (this one had an original tail), but it was the same size, perhaps from the same clutch. I have been checking from time to time but over the last month or so I haven't seen any more.