Darwin Trip (VERY picture heavy!!!!)

[sarah_m]

Well I have been slack as, since these pics are from our trip to Darwin in June/July and I am only just putting them up now

Unfortunately most of the herps we saw were not in the wild but was still cool to see them.

This was our first day there, at the Territory Wildlife Park.
Saw this beautiful free ranging Mertens monitor.




A HUGE golden orb spider

Golden tree snakes

A wild looking caterpillar (anyone kn ow what species it is?)

One of the massive crocs at Crocasaurus Cove, which was awsome. I think it had one of the best reptile displays I have ever seen, and everything was really active!

Stacks on- The babies

A very impressive yellow croc

Adult pig nose turtles

Northern knob tailed gecko (I think?)

This is THE olive python that was in the news earlier this year for eating a womans maltese terrier in Katherine

A couple of Night Tigers

Little Burtens lizard

Stunning looking water python

How cute are these babies?

I want one!

Cute little spiny tail monitor

Sorry about the quality of this one, head of a file snake

Mitchell's monitor

Tawny dragon

Um... I'm sure they were just cuddeling (there was alot of this going on while we were there)

Northern spiny tailed gecko

Courtship of Mulga's (very cute)

A good sized BHP

Death adder

I got to hold Twisty, the water python

Our jumping croc cruise on the Adelaide river

Spotted a couple of hatchlings on the bank

This was the biggest croc in the river, over 5m

Female Gilbert's dragon? Saw her alot on this fence at our resort in Darwin city

Any of the gecko people want to identify this for me? Pic was taken at 5am while waiting for the bus to go to Kakadu

Not the best pic but this was taken at Nourlangie Rock in Kakadu, an excitable delma

Sorry, another shocking pic but the best we could do of a keelback at Fogg Dam

Also at Fogg Dam, black whip snake shedding its skin

The lake behind our resort Kakadu Aurora (sth alligator) at dusk

Dragon flys everywhere

No idea what sort of skink this is

??? gecko

Twin Falls

Another unidentified gecko

Didn't see any green tree frogs, just these little brown ones

Sleeping drogonfly

Our night walk yielded nothing but a frog. It was very cold and dry, so not alot was out.
Even our road cruising proved fruitless

 

[ravan]

awww love the pig noses! they kinda look like theyre waving
and the little froggies are cute too

 

[pythons73]

What some great photos Sarah,love the new purple Knob tailed gecko,the Water python,the Mulgas and defiantly the BHP...Looks as thou you had a terrific time...MARK

 

[sarah_m]

Thanks, had a great time. Only downside was that there was so much to see but not enough time to see it all.

 

[bazz20]

thank you very much i enjoyed those pix

 

[ryanharvey1993]

nice pics, your geckos are asian house geckos except the big chunky one, which looks like gehyra australis

by the way, looks like cane toads have had there effect, when we were up there we saw piles of frillys, and monitors where the most common reptile, saw heaps of them. real shame, did you see many of either of them? any cane toads about?

 

[sarah_m]

No we didn't, but we were told that the frillys spend winter in hollow trees and are not very visable at that time of year.
We did see a big ugly toad right in the middle of Kakadu, was sad!

 

[OzGecko]

Nice pictures. I think the Tawny dragon may actually be a Chameleon Dragon, Chelosania brunnea. The Ridge tails look to be Varanus baritji.