Wild Reptiles

[snakeluvver]

Some pics of some reptiles I've seen, the Carpet Pythons are ones I saw today
Wild Australian Reptiles - a set on Flickr

 

[grizz]

Some good animals there mate, did ya get the coastal off the road?

 

[snakeluvver]

My mum stopped her car and flashed the car headlights at people coming to slow down so they'd swerve around it, but luckily it was moving quickly. Once he was almost off he slowed and his tail was still on the road, so i lifted his tail and moved it a bit, not that he seemed to care. My mum freaked out when I touched it lol

 

[MathewB]

Nice coastal, I'm very jealous

 

[grizz]

My mum stopped her car and flashed at people coming to slow down so they'd swerve around it, but luckily it was moving quickly. Once he was almost off he slowed and his tail was still on the road, so i lifted his tail and moved it a bit, not that he seemed to care. My mum freaked out when I touched it lol

Mums freak mate, that's their job. It's our job to make sure they do!

 

[Dan40D]

My mum stopped her car and flashed at people coming to slow down so they'd swerve around it, but luckily it was moving quickly. Once he was almost off he slowed and his tail was still on the road, so i lifted his tail and moved it a bit, not that he seemed to care. My mum freaked out when I touched it lol

I assume you mean her car headlights, i just got this image of your mum on the side of the road "flashing" passing motorists :lol: Nice find mate, looks like a good sized beastie.

 

[snakeluvver]

Well they were "headlights" of some sort :shock: :lol: ewww

That would've made them slow down!

 

[richoman_3]

love the murray skink!

 

[snakeluvver]

Yeah when I found it I thought it was just a Water Skink, but looking at the pics I realised the patterns are way off so I looked up the Eulamprus genus and found out its a Murray Skink
I wonder if anyone keeps them, they look awesome! I'd love any Eulamprus species, especially murrayi, amplus and quoyii.

For anyone interested, there are also some pics of my pet reptiles including a very cool picture of my gecko during shed. I'm also going to make an album for wild exotic reptiles, I have some pics of some Nile Monitors and crocs from South Africa somewhere... I saw loads of reptiles in South Africa including a huge skink in the bathtub and loads of Nile Monitors and a few leopard tortoises, but I wasnt into reptiles then so I dont have many pictures

 

[SnakeNBake]

Great shots man. Beautiful carpety. That water dragon looks pretty big too, I have a 3 foot long water dragon living on my street in the middle of suburbia, they are cool.

 

[snakeluvver]

They're everywhere on the coast but recently I've been seeing a lot less. I have pictures from the same place I found the dark Carpet Python of a big water dragon high in the beams, but its not very good.

 

[lisa5]

Great photos, thanks for sharing. After reading your first post about going to the nursery with your mum, gotta laugh now at your enthusiasm. You didn't sound too keen at first! Wish our local nursery was like that.

 

[snakeluvver]

Haha yeah. Wow my wild reptiles album has had over 100 views in just a day. By the way if anyone could identify this skink that'd be great Unknown Skink | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[SnakeNBake]

definately from the Eulamprus genus. Could it be a murrayi or tenuis? They are they only one I could find in my book but it is grossly out of date (15 years since it was published lol)

 

[snakeluvver]

Theres only 4 Eulamprus sp in my area and its definately not a quoyii and it doesnt look like a murrayi so that leaves tenuis and martini but I'm leaning towards tenuis...

 

[SnakeNBake]

sweet, i was thinking tenuis too. Nice find!

 

[snakeluvver]

Yeah that photo was taken at Noosa. I found a skink similar to that in my garden recently, didnt look like a water skink but it was gone before I got the camera.
Do you think it'd be ok to share the rough locations of the reptiles I found on flickr?

 

[SnakeNBake]

I don't know. I wonder about that too, and on 1 hand I'd like to share but on the other, I do a bit of herping when I go out climbing and always leave the bush with a bag of rubbish so more human traffic in the bush isn't a good thing. But then again being on this forum you'd hope that only responsible people would bother going to your spot.

 

[snakeluvver]

I decided to just say "Found on the sunshine coast"

 

[sammy09]

lol how come i only find elapids and no pythons or colubrids

ohh and not just any elapids they always have to be the realy deadly ones

(the least deadliest elapid ive found is a red belly)