Torrens Creek

The weekend after our trip to Chillagoe, Zozizzle and I headed to the small township of Torrens Creek to get all up in the desert uplands and hopefully find some limb-reduced, fossorial skinks. It was a decidedly uneventful trip, for the most part. We spent a large portion of the first day driving around trying to find Queensland. Luckily we eventually found a sign to point us in the right direction.

There it is!

We poked around for the obligatory little brown skink…

Northern soil-crevice skink (Proablepharus tenuis)

Then went spotlighting at night for the obligatory cute-mammal-and-even-cuter-baby…

Spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus) and joey

After spending all day Saturday and most of Sunday not finding what we were after, we packed up and headed home. We stopped at a scenic lookout along the way for a toilet break, and poked around the car park. It was fortuitous that I’d been drinking so much caffeinated beverage, as Zozizzle soon found one of the very skinks we’d been hoping for.

Two-toed fine-lined slider (Lerista wilkinsi)

Lerista wilkinsi habitat

This little, limb-reduced Lerista became the 338th Australian reptile I’d seen. Only 12 more to go before the end of the year to reach my goal of 350. Will I make it? (hint: I probably will.)

Running total of Australian reptiles I’ve seen: 338

Reptick:
Lerista wilkinsi