Monthly Archives: October 2012

After leaving the area around Coen, we travelled south to the Daintree Rainforest. Our main target was a little brown skink on a particular mountain, and we weren’t disappointed. Along the way, we found a few other beasties. Northern tree … Continue reading →

After leaving Iron Range, we headed north towards the Jardine River. As we were driving back south, we found a very interesting animal on the road. The stripe-tailed delma (Delma labialis) was previously thought to occur only in a small … Continue reading →

After leaving Weipa, we spent the best part of a day driving to Iron Range National Park. This was the main destination for our trip, as I really wanted to find a green python. We found one on the second … Continue reading →

After leaving Laura, we headed north to meet up with a friend in Weipa who’d offered to take us out in her boat that night to look for little file snakes (Acrochordus granulatus). We headed to a caravan park to … Continue reading →

Cape York Peninsula, the pointy bit on the top of Queensland, has long held a fascination for me. The Cape contains a wide variety of habitat types, including open woodland, sandstone escarpment, freshwater wetlands, mangrove-lined estuaries and much, much more. … Continue reading →

A friend’s 40th birthday on Magnetic Island was a good excuse to head over and track down a few of the locals, including the island’s endemic skink, Menetia sadlieri. Allied rock-wallaby (Petrogale assimilis)