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Hey Everyone,

My family and I will be going on holiday to Cairns for four days and then 6 days at Cape trib.
This will be the fourth time we are going and i will be Volunteering at the Australian Venom Zoo for a few days whiles we are staying in Cairns.

I want to know which areas are the best to see BHPs, Boyd's, scrubbies, carpets and all other great looking reptiles.
No I do not want to illegally take them from the wild. I just want to photograph them and then let them be. (If you know of a great location but do not wish to tell it publicly because you do not want the wrong kind of people to find out PM me).

Any info would be great.


These are just a few reptiles i sure last year when i was there.
 

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Hey Everyone,

My family and I will be going on holiday to Cairns for four days and then 6 days at Cape trib.
This will be the fourth time we are going and i will be Volunteering at the Australian Venom Zoo for a few days whiles we are staying in Cairns.

Thanks for mentioning the Australian Venom Zoo. I hadn't heard of it but, because I will be in Kuranda for about 1.5 hours next Tuesday, I checked it out on the web. I'll definitely visit it while I'm there.
 
Thanks poggle :)


Thanks for mentioning the Australian Venom Zoo. I hadn't heard of it but, because I will be in Kuranda for about 1.5 hours next Tuesday, I checked it out on the web. I'll definitely visit it while I'm there.

See you then ;)
 
im sure the QLD government said your not welcome Niall so guess you cant go then, oh well sucks to be you! hehe yes im jealous to answer your message from before
 
Hey Everyone,
Got back from QLD on Wednesday, I had a Great time.
Didn't see much snakes, but found a good amount of Boyd's Rainforest Dragons :)
Here is a few pictures.

Boyd's Rainforest Dragon.
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White Lipped Green Tree Frog.
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Litoria jungguy
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Lesueur's Tree Frog
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Green-eyed Tree Frogs
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A few Skinks
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Carlia schmeltzii
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Carlia sesbrauna
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Asian House Gecko
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Keel-Back??
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This is all random stuff.

Mud Skipper
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King Fisher
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These signs just tease me as i never see a croc!
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This fern is called wait a while as if you get caught in it you have to "wait a while"to pluck the thorns out and they can rip your T-shirts and they hurt!
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Sand monitor
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To me this Stick inset looked like them Aliens from Men In Black that drink all the coffee Haha
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Cane Toad
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Sorry about all the Pictures i didn't know which ones to post because i liked them all haha
Please do not steal my pictures
Hope you like.
 
Boyd's RF Dargon.

Fingers crossed i get to see more snakes when i go in Jan next year.
 
Be it known - the Venom Zoo in Kuranda is a dodgy establishment and the "owner / director / venom animal expert / bio-prospector" is a strange guy to say at least. The titles I mentioned are on his business card, on the back it says: "Conservationalist".
Make your own opinion.
 
Yes I know what you mean about the owner.
I needed to go meet him in the Staff Only area.
I feel sorry for the little dog that lives in a laurndry sized area that has newspaper on the floor for the dog to pee and poo on, It doesn't look like it ever goes for a walk and the only thing stopping it from getting out to run around in the staff only area is carbord... enough said.
 
Hey Everyone,
Got back from QLD on Wednesday, I had a Great time.
Didn't see much snakes, but found a good amount of Boyd's Rainforest Dragons :)
Here is a few pictures.

Sorry about all the Pictures i didn't know which ones to post because i liked them all haha
Please do not steal my pictures
Hope you like.

You did better than me! The only wild herp pics I got when I was up there last week (admittedly on a tourist trip, not a herping trip) were the first two. An Eastern Water Dragon @ Rainforestation, an Amethystine Python on a Daintree River Cruise. I've also included a pic of Jack the Ripper, a 5m captive croc at Rainforestation - and his little mate (that someone who knows dragons better than me can identify, please).
 

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Nice shots, the Boyd's looks great. I think your Green Eyed Frog is actually a Mist Frog (Litoria rheocola) and your Litoria lesueuri should be Litoria jungguy if it came from the Cairns/Trib area.

Aaron
 
Thanks for that mate,

You can see im not that good at naming QLD reptiles Haha
 
Did it rain? We wanna go early next year, but heard it usually pours down! But some locals say you can still get out and about if you don't mind getting wet...lol
 
Did it rain? We wanna go early next year, but heard it usually pours down! But some locals say you can still get out and about if you don't mind getting wet...lol

Rain???

I think what you're referring to is liquid sunshine?
 
haha
There was no rain at all, 31c nearly everyday and 18c nights,
Got home to 16 max and 4c min, so dissapointed!

We were talking to a few locals as we are thinking of buying some land in Palm Cove to have a holiday house and they said is mostly sunner all day till the arvo when it starts bucketing down.

Thats why we are going back in Jan to see what the wet season is like.
 
Wet season is a lot of fun - for sure...

Instead of 31'C during the day it's only 34'C so not a huge difference... over night it normally drops to about 30'C - sometimes 28'C if it's really cold....
 
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