Cairns, October 2010 (very late)

[sarah_m]

So I have been really slack and not put any pics up from our last 3 trips (the most recent one was 2 weeks ago).
This is the first of those trips to Cairns/Daintree in October 2010 (only a year late!!!). Hopefully the rest will follow over the next week or so......
Hope you enjoy, but please excuse some of the photos, that camera has been dropped one too many times and was not performing like it used to!:x

Free ranging water dragon at Cairns Zoo

Calia longipes

Death adder, Cairns Zoo

Central netted dragon, Cairns Zoo

Velvet gecko with weird markings, Cairns Zoo

Knob tailed gecko, Cairns Zoo

Burtons legless lizard, Cairns Zoo

Nice big Black headed python, Cairns Zoo

Scrub python, Cairns Zoo

Green tree python, Cairns Zoo

Unidentified frog, Flecker botanic gardens

Random skink, Flecker botanic gardens

Leafy Katydid hitching a ride on the car, Palm Cove

Major skink, Daintree Rainforest

Eulamprus tigrinus

Juvie boyds forest dragon at night, Coopers Creek, Daintree NP

Boyd's forest dragon, Coopers Creek, Daintree NP

Captive Night Tiger at Lync-Haven, Daintree NP

Juvie scrub python on the road between the ice cream company and the Deep Forest Lodge, Daintree NP

Golden orb weaver, Yungaburra

Graceful tree frog, Yungaburra

And again.....

Not herp related, but at the Chamber's wildlife lodge where we stayed, honey was smeared on some trees each night to draw in the gliders and possums

This was awful! We got back from a night walk and I found this free loader stuck to my leg. I didn't have anything to get it off with so I just had to leave it.....

It got bigger.....

And finally dropped off, but I got my revenge by flushing it down the toilet!

This little jungle python was very lucky not to get squished! We almost ran it over less than 100m out of Malanda. It didn't appreciate being helped off the road and lived up to the jungle reputation, cranky!!!! It was alot prettier in real life, very rich copper and gold.

Scrub python basking along the shore of Lake Eachem

Lace Monitor, Lake Eachem

Green eyed tree frog, Yungaburra

Spotted python, Hartley's crocodile park

Croc feeding @ Hartleys

Turtle @ Hartleys

And us with a water python at Hartleys

 

[69blottfilms69]

Awesome snaps
That water dragon looks quite fat
and the Juvie scrub python head looks huge some awesome snakes great work

 

[sarah_m]

Yeh, we were pretty happy to find the scrubbie, especially one with such polite manners!

 

[GeckPhotographer]

Those geckos don't look healthy. :/

 

[Scleropages]

So I have been really slack and not put any pics up from our last 3 trips (the most recent one was 2 weeks ago).
This is the first of those trips to Cairns/Daintree in October 2010 (only a year late!!!). Hopefully the rest will follow over the next week or so......
Hope you enjoy, but please excuse some of the photos, that camera has been dropped one too many times and was not performing like it used to!:x


Free ranging water dragon at Cairns Zoo

Calia longipes


Death adder, Cairns Zoo


Central netted dragon, Cairns Zoo

Velvet gecko with weird markings, Cairns Zoo

They are burn marks. I have a ringtail with the same , got burnt on mesh with a 60W bulb in winter.... I don't use bulbs for heating geckos anymore....

 

[Bluetongue1]

A lovely collection of shots there. Quite some variety. Very nice.

The smallish, mottled frog is the Floodplain Frog or Peter’s Frog (Litoria inermis)
The random skink is probably a Blue-throated Rainbow-skink (Carlia rhomboidalis)
The glider is almost certainly a Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) – Squirrel Gliders look almost identical but are larger.
The turtle is probably the Northern Red-faced Turtle (Emydura victoriae)

To remove leeches, put salt on them. This causes them to dehydrate and they drop off. If you are a smoker, you can also apply the tip of a lighted cigarette to the leeches head and it will soon let go.

Blue