Herping the tanami

[waruikazi]

I was working in the Tanami during the week and managed to get out with another bloke who likes his reps. Only found a couple of things and conditions weren't real great. Here's pics.

Some dead crabs

A beautiful central blue tongue

A really blue spiny tail gecko

And the highlight and a new species for me, a northern shovel nose snake

ANd the little blighter trying to burrow away from us under my mates foot.

 

[Chrisreptile]

That would have to be one of the best Central Blueys i have ever seen, such clean crisp bands on its back

 

[Mulcahy]

wat a nice bluey he is defently not starving

 

[waruikazi]

That would have to be one of the best Central Blueys i have ever seen, such clean crisp bands on its back

Yeah man he was pretty spekky!

Too bad i told the locals about him and he got eaten eh. :lol:

 

[funcouple]

thanks for sharing. cant get over how nice that central blue tongue is. makes me want one

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

I like the dead crabs and the blue gecko gordo and that shovelnose would have been
great to find.
Im a bit jealous..and lol at

Too bad i told the locals about him and he got eaten eh. :lol:

 

[whcasual79]

mate that shovel nose is quality...

 

[wiz-fiz]

that bluey looked like it had a few blue patches on it's leg, did it?
in the pic of the northern shovel head burrowing it looked like it had been chopped in half

I wish I was as good at herping as you, can you share some tips?


Will

 

[BenReyn]

Im loving the Bluey mate
That must have been a great trip, shame you didn't Photgraph any womas.
Thanks fo

 

[BenReyn]

Im loving the Bluey mate
That must have been a great trip, shame you didn't Photgraph any womas.
Thanks fo sharing
Ben.

 

[BenReyn]

..^^ Sorry, I dont know what happened there. Lol.

 

[waruikazi]

that bluey looked like it had a few blue patches on it's leg, did it?
in the pic of the northern shovel head burrowing it looked like it had been chopped in half

I wish I was as good at herping as you, can you share some tips?


Will

Will i am far from good at herping mate. It's something i don't do very often and your luck and the right conditions change from place to place. There's not much advice i could give apart from get out there, do it and keep a diary of when you go, what the weather is, humidity, time of year, moon phase etc etc. And yes it's legs were kinda navy blue like the stripe on it's eyes.

Im loving the Bluey mate
That must have been a great trip, shame you didn't Photgraph any womas.
Thanks fo

It was actually pretty dismal, i thought this place would be crawling with mulgas and westerns, which apparently it is... but we just couldn't find any.