Hardcore Herping, sleepless nights : Episode 1

[Nephrurus]

Recently I partook in a fairly taxing herping extravaganza. Three nights of road driving and searching in around around Sydney and sometimes furthur afield.

The first night we went out was a bit of a non-event. Cold and wet, the storm had rolled in as hoped, but with it cold weather. It was not looking good. Herping was fairly poor.

We did manage to find a few species.

White's skinks Egernia whitiiare fairly common in the Blue Mountains. We found this one in a shallow crevice in some rock.

Even thought it was fairly cold there was still some frogs about. These banjo frogs Limnodynastes dumerili were found on the track and road out.

A dam we stopped at on the way home had Lit. peroni, Lim. peroni, Lit fallax, Crinia signifera and Lit. verreauxi calling.
Here are some pictures of some verreauxi.

Watch out for episode II.

All the best,

-H

 

[scorps]

nice pics man what type of camera u use?

 

[MrBredli]

Awesome pics as usual mate!

 

[joejurjevi]

nice pics yeah looks like a camera with 8 megapixs or highter

 

[Nephrurus]

Nikon Coolpix 5700....... takes photos at a max of 5 megapixels.

 

[junglepython2]

Great shots as usual.

 

[method]

Thats an awesome little camera you have there, do u ever have troubles with getting it wet in such conditions. obviously u cover up but it seems as though you use it quite a bit Just wonderin

 

[$NaKe PiMp]

nephrus = the chuck norris of hardcore inyour face herping

 

[$NaKe PiMp]

ive only seen whites skinks around the upper colo at lothars love shack
on a day herpin trip

 

[callith]

nice photos, look forward to episode two

 

[mattmc]

lol @ $NaKe PiMp so true.
nice finds mate. looking foward to part 2 and so forth.
cheers
matt

 

[lil_ben]

awsome pics, looking forward to next episode.

 

[ryanharvey1993]

awsome cant wait for the next lot of pics