TTC and Paluma

[gus11]

I spent the week tutoring third year students on a field trip in the local town common area. It was a much more successful trip than i had anticipated and I think the students got a lot out of it. Days were 13-14 hours long and fairly busy so I didn't bother with taking to many phographs, here is some of what we saw anyway

C. canni

P. textilis

crytpoblepharus sp. (i havent looked this up yet)

After the busy week I headed for what was meant to be a slow weekend at Paluma, it ended up being fairly busy weekend. some of what we found were

saw shelled turtles

what I'm fairly certain is L. inermis

a juvenile frilly

a not so happy V. scalaris

a juvenile S. cornutus

we found many adults, but I've become a leaf tail snob and only photograph those with original tails. However, I have spent many hours trying to decide why leaftails have such a high tail loss rate. If anyone has theories I'd love to hear them. this individual had a chunk missing from its tail so i thought I'd take a photo as i havent seen this before and may help to explain that something is trying to eat them

Aside from reptiles paluma is great for some beautiful birds such as
rifle birds

and pittas

Gus

 

[Waterrat]

Very nostalgic Gus, I used to live in Paluma. Nice shots.

 

[cadwallader]

nice shots mate.. love the underwater ones

 

[naivepom]

You did damn well Gus - never seen a frilly or leaf-tail in Paluma and some great wide angles of the brown and turtle in the Common.

 

[r3ptilian]

Gr8 pics mate, I love the 1st one of the saw shelled. what sort of camera and lens did you use for the underwater shots?

 

[Waterrat]

You did damn well Gus - never seen a frilly or leaf-tail in Paluma and some great wide angles of the brown and turtle in the Common.

They are very common there, more common on walls in the village than out in the bush.

 

[Snakeluvver2]

Great photo!

 

[naivepom]

They are very common there, more common on walls in the village than out in the bush.

Yeah I've heard that from quite a few people but still never seen them there despite a dozen or so trips.

 

[snakes123]

That underwater photo of the saw shell turtle is great!

 

[Clarke.93]

WOW, loving the first pic, P. textilis and the sawshelled turtles, absolutely amazing!!
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Jake.

Great photo!

i hope your sig isnt true jannico aha. had a massive collection there.