We left Mudgee and headed towards Warrumbungle National Park. Along the way we saw an eastern long-necked turtle on the side of the road.

Today I embarked on an Australian odyssey. I met a friend of mine, Richard Reams, at Sydney Airport and we headed off to pick up our rental car. After getting lost in Sydney for about an hour, we finally made it out of the city and into the Blue Mountains. It was quite an overcast [...]

Yesterday’s post reminded me to look up some information on the small, striped, squirrel-like creatures I saw running around Dryandra. Turns out they’re not Indian palm squirrels that have escaped from Perth zoo. They are, in fact, native animals called numbats. We saw lots of these so-called numbats running around the place, but unfortunately I [...]

At the end of October I went over to the TDWG (the international organisation for biodiversity information standards) 2008 conference. The conference was a great success and a fantastic networking opportunity. There was, however, a distinct lack of reptiles at the conference. So at the end of the week I went down to revisit Dryandra [...]