Cairns Meet - 09...

[pigysus]

Nice work jason, Ibut you've changed my opinion of magpies a bit

 

[JasonL]

a couple of Eulamprus sp's.. to me they look like quoyii and tenuis

 

[ryanharvey1993]

so who ended up going? just the thp crew?

 

[JasonL]

On the way home we found a carpet snake

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he was a friendly chap, couldn't find a more willing snake, hey Grim.

 

[Nephrurus]

Those tube nosed bats are nothing less than absolutely BALLTEARING...

Otherwise all very nice... I'm very sorry I didn't go out, but when you're generally unemployed, you've got to take work when you can get it.


-H

 

[JasonL]

and also this Northern Barred Frog, which arn't all that uncommon around the Cairns area, we found a couple around the place..

 

[trader]

oh my gawd thanks for sharing!!! They are such beautiful photos!

 

[Moreliaman]

We can see youre a funguy (fungi) to be with jas !!!
Top pic's by the way, how do you manage to get that close? or do you have a good zoom ?

 

[JasonL]

Some more frogs found that night were L. inermis, L. rothii and a L. peronii...damb striped marsh frogs!!!

 

[JasonL]

We can see youre a funguy (fungi) to be with jas !!!
Top pic by the way, how do you manage to get that close? or do you have a good zoom ?

Nah, just a ****ty base model Nikon SLR with kit lenses...nothing flash for me...I just keep hacking away untill something works. One day I'll get myself a macro lense and take over the world!

 

[scorps]

Shame use didnt see more reps, I have been herping a little bit lately not much around atm but i guess all the terential rain has something to do with it.

 

[JasonL]

so who ended up going? just the thp crew?

Sorry, can't say. We formed a secret society and preformed bazzar rituals. Stuck in a house togther during heavy rain in the tropics will do that to anyone.

 

[JasonL]

Shame use didnt see more reps, I have been herping a little bit lately not much around atm but i guess all the terential rain has something to do with it.

Only part the way through the story so far, it picked up towards the end..I was more than happy with what we saw.

 

[dickyknee]

Nice pics Jason ....looks like it was well worth the raining days .

 

[JasonL]

Slim6y took us out to one of his fav places, unfortunately we didn't have a boat

so we headed of south of Cairns to check out some beaches ect..., found some large angry birds, so we all got out of the cars and took pics of them, it followed us back to the car and we found out they don't like the look of themselves in the reflection of the car window...

 

[JasonL]

Well anyway, we checked out some beaches, found some dainties, and drove around the cane fields on the way home that night for very little, plenty of frogs and toads were all over the road however, inc this white lipped.

 

[fraser888]

Sounds like a great trip mate!

 

[JasonL]

anyway......we soon decided to head out west for an overnighter...see some county side ect ect..so we thought we would head out to Mt Suprise / Georgetown for a quick look...interesting place, bird & Macropod lovers dream..... the creek was up west of Mt Suprise so Georgetown was not going to happen..

 

[smacdonald]

Did you have a look at Russell's snakes? I drove through Mt Surprise last November. His sign intrigued me, but I didn't stop for a look.

Stewart

 

[JasonL]

Did you have a look at Russell's snakes? I drove through Mt Surprise last November. His sign intrigued me, but I didn't stop for a look.

Stewart

yeah, same here, but we didn't either.