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Niall

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Hi all.

Been up in the Pilbara for 2 or so weeks catching up with mates and herping.

Ended up turning out to be a great trip.
Found a good number of species, considering the amount of flooding they are having up there this year.

Black headed Python.

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Woma Python.

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Stimson Python.

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Pgymy Python.

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Ring Brown Snake.

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Desert Death Adder.

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Long Beaked Worm Snake.

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Pilbara Rock Monitor.

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Sand Monitor.

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Northern Bearded Dragon.

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Spiny Tailed Skinks.

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Western Hooded Scaly Foot.

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Flat Shell Turtles.

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Scorpion.

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Frogs.

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Cheers,
Niall
 
omg AMAZING
holy ******************** that scorpion is just STUNNING !!!!! ive never seen anything like it !!!!!!!
 
how big was the scorp?
im guessing its either urodacus lowei or urodacus hoplurus.... never seen pics though just going on description!
did you see any centipedes or other inverts?
 
Cheers for the comments.

The scorpion was around 5-6cm.
The centipedes up there are good looking, we also found house centipedes and a mate found a big trap door spider.

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the centipede is a scolopendra morsitans .......
and that is one of the nicest ive seen :D !!!
stunning
 
Yeah Found both in the same type of habitat where we camped at.
 
Yeah Found both in the same type of habitat where we camped at.

I find it pretty intriguing, that two species which are so similar can share the same habitat and range. I wonder if their is a natural hybrid between the two.
 
Great photos, what an amazing trip you had! Thanks for posting the pics.
 
Love the Varanus pilbarensis - Pilbara Rock Monitor. By far my favourite looking monitor species - would love to keep them one day.
 
I know what you mean Simon,
When I first went up to the Pilbara the first time I went looking for them to get a few photographs of them, I was amazed at the colouration they have.

Also found that they are the earliest risers out of the Varanus family I know as I found most where up at 7am when I went to photograph this group.
 
great pics , you certainly had an awesome trip, no geckos ?
 
great pics , you certainly had an awesome trip, no geckos ?

There was plenty of geckos out.
Seen some good looking Knob Tail Geckos whiles I was up, didn't photograph any of them or skinks I found because most where seen whiles spotting on the road and had road trains or other cars behind us.
 
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