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	<title>Stewed Thoughts</title>
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	<description>Some random thoughts, gently stewed, served on a bed of love</description>
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		<title>Baby snakes</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2010/01/baby-snakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine has recently welcomed some new snakes into the world.

	
	Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) siblings. One clutch can produce hatchlings with a variety of patterns and colours.



	
	Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)


	
	Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)


	
	Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)


	
	Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)


	
	Neonate tiger snake (Notechis scutatus)


	
	Neonate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windorah or bust</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/windorah-or-bust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/windorah-or-bust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a repticker (as my recent Quest for 250 saga shows). I have a list of reptiles that I&#8217;ve seen. I like adding to my list. I woke up one day in early October and realised I&#8217;d never seen Cyclodomorphus venustus. This both shocked and worried me. What if I got hit by a bus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog versus snake</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/frog-versus-snake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/frog-versus-snake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went up to Mt Glorious with some friends to see what we could see. We walked down to a set of waterfalls. On the way down we saw lots of great barred frogs (Mixophyes fasciolatus) and a golden-crowned snake (Cacophis squamulosus). We were heading down to the waterfall to look for Litoria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>250/250: Lampropholis amicula</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/lampropholis-amicula/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/lampropholis-amicula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third story relating to my quest to take my lifetime list of Australian reptile species to 250 before the end of 2009. For previous instalments, read the introduction, the first story, the second story and the second-and-a-half story.
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After the success I had with finding species 248 and 249, the dismal failure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>249/250: my luck runs out</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/my-luck-runs-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/my-luck-runs-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second-and-a-half story relating to my quest to take my lifetime list of Australian reptile species to 250 before the end of 2009. For previous instalments, read the introduction, the first story and the second story.
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I just needed to find one more species to achieve my goal of seeing 250 Australian reptile species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>249/250: Egernia mcpheei</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/egernia-mcpheei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/egernia-mcpheei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second story relating to my quest to take my lifetime list of Australian reptile species to 250 before the end of 2009. For previous instalments, read the introduction and the first story.
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I was on a high after the success of my mission to find Lampropholis couperi (species 248 out of my target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>248/250: Lampropholis couperi</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/248250-lampropholis-couperi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/248250-lampropholis-couperi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The plain-backed sunskink, Lampropholis couperi. &#8216;Coup&#8217; to his friends. Found in rainforests on mountain ranges from about Rockhampton south to Mt Nebo. To most, a little brown skink. To me, species number 248 on my life-list. I didn&#8217;t muck around. I went straight to the source of the skink&#8217;s patronym: Patrick Couper from the Queensland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quest 250</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/quest-250/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/12/quest-250/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After my last fauna survey, I tallied up my list to count all the reptile species I&#8217;ve seen over the last couple of years. I was surprised to find that I&#8217;d seen only 244 species*. That may sound like a lot, but I&#8217;ve got a long way to go given that there are about 923 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone Gulfing</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/11/gone-gulfing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/11/gone-gulfing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the field]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the Gulf of Carpentaria at the moment. The wet season has just started and there are critters all over the place. The flies, heat, flies, humidity, flies, mosquitoes and flies are a small price to pay.


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		<title>Alpha, Queensland</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/11/alpha-queensland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/11/alpha-queensland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the field]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spent two weeks up at Alpha, between Emerald and Longreach. It was very hot and dry, and there wasn&#8217;t as much critter action as I&#8217;d hoped. But I still managed to find and photograph a few new things.

	
	Collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)

This collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) was hanging around a dam. He seemed completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apostlebirds I have known and loved</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/10/apostlebirds-i-have-known-and-loved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/10/apostlebirds-i-have-known-and-loved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the field]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out at Lake Broadwater recently. A group of 11 apostlebirds (Struthidea cinerea) came to investigate me while I was eating. I set up my camera and flashes on the ground and stood a short distance away with my remote trigger. When the birds came over to investigate my camera and food crumbs, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANZANG 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/10/anzang-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/10/anzang-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the 2009 ANZANG nature photography competition have been announced. I had two images short-listed this year, but unfortunately neither of them won their category. Congrats to the winners and to all the other short-listed entries! Hopefully the travelling exhibition will make it up to Queensland this year.


Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) &#8211; short-listed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dalby, or not Dalby: that is the question.</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/09/dalby-or-not-dalby-that-is-the-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/09/dalby-or-not-dalby-that-is-the-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the field]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from two weeks of poking around near Dalby. Here are some pics. Reptiles/amphibians I saw but didn&#8217;t photograph are:
-Diplodactylus vittatus
-Pseudechis guttatus
-Carlia foliorum
-Limnodynastes tasmaniensis

	
	Red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) found on a dirt road



	
	Red-bellied black snake was found on the road. It retreated to the fallen log in the distance after it was disturbed.


	
	Red-bellied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captive snakes</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/08/captive-snakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/08/captive-snakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally post pics of captive animals, but here are some owned by a friend of mine who lives in Longreach.

	
	Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis). St George locale.



	
	Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis). St George locale.


	
	Mulga snake (Pseudechis australis). St George locale.


	
	Speckled brown snake (Pseudonaja guttata). Banded form.


	
	Speckled brown snake (Pseudonaja guttata). Banded form.


	
	Speckled brown snake (Pseudonaja [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf of Carpentaria</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/05/gulf-of-carpentaria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/05/gulf-of-carpentaria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 11:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a trip to the Gulf of Carpentaria, north of Mount Isa. I think the highlights were the olive pythons (we found two) and Cryptoblepharus zoticus (Cryptoblepharus is my favourite skink genus), plus the bats.
Species marked with an asterisk (*) are ones which I hadn&#8217;t before seen in the wild.

	
	Common tree snake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eungella and Finch Hatton</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/eungella-and-finch-hatton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/eungella-and-finch-hatton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Driving back from work last month, a colleague and I decided to drop into Eungella National Park, a few hours west of Mackay on the central Queensland coast. Eungella is a mountainous rainforest environment with a number of endemic species. We were after two in particular, a skink (Eulamprus luteilateralis &#8211; &#8220;the lute&#8221;) and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Bah</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/the-bah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/the-bah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of last month a colleague and I did some poking around at Moranbah, west of Mackay. We found a bunch of stuff.

	
	Spotted python (Antaresia maculosa)



	
	Spotted python (Antaresia maculosa)


	
	Carpentaria snake (Cryptophis boschmai)


	
	Carpentaria snake (Cryptophis boschmai)


	
	Copper-tailed skink (Ctenotus taeniolatus)


	
	Strauch&#8217;s ctenotus (Ctenotus strauchii)


	
	Robust striped skink (Ctenotus robustus)


	
	Menetia greyii


	
	Lerista fragilis


	
	Brigalow scaly-foot (Paradelma orientalis)


	
	Ocellated velvet gecko (Oedura [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha bravo</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/alpha-bravo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/04/alpha-bravo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I spent a couple of days out Alpha, west of Emerald. We saw a bunch of critters. Driving out from Emerald we saw on the road what was probably a black whipsnake (Demansia vestigiata), but neither of us got a good enough look to ID it with any confidence.
Driving along the roads (both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wallum frogging</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/wallum-frogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/wallum-frogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/?p=476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wallum frogs is the collective term applied to a suite of frog species that are found only in wallum/heath environments. These environments are characterised by vegetation such as Melaleucas, sedges and banksias. The waters in these swampy areas are tannin-stained and of a low pH due to the dissolved organic acids.
My friend Kat (of crayfish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamington plateau</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/lamington-plateau-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/lamington-plateau-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other weekend I went up to the Lamington Plateau with a friend of mine. We were hoping to find a bunch of Coeranoscincus reticulatus (after my extraordinary luck with them last time). Sadly, no coeranoscincids were to be found. But we did see a bunch of other stuff.

	
Saproscincus rosei



	
Saproscincus rosei

We walked down to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cracow, social capital of Queensland</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/cracow-social-capital-of-queensland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last December I was dragged out to Cracow to help Jonno Lucas from Educational Reptile Displays with a venomous snake handling course for the Cracow Gold Mine. We stayed at the Cracow Pub, owned by Fred Brophy.

	
A green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) found in a post out the back of the Cracow Pub.


The first night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brigalow reptile hunting</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/brigalow-reptile-hunting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January I went out to the southern Brigalow Belt twice. Once to look for pale-headed snakes (Hoplocephalus bitorquatus) and once to look for yakka skinks (Egernia rugosa). Both trips were highly successful. The yakka skink trip turned up not only the skinks, but holy cross frogs (Notaden bennetti) and a Dunmall&#8217;s snake (Furina dunmalli). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamington National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/lamington-national-park-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I spent a day up at Lamington National Park with some friends of mine. We&#8217;d gone up there to look for a small, brown, nondescript species of skink called Harrisoniascincus zia. I&#8217;ve nicknamed it the Solo skink, because the people who came up with the name Harrisoniascincus were Star Wars fans. While they officially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cityscapes</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/02/cityscapes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bit of a departure from my usual wildlife stuff, here&#8217;s a pic and a timelapse sequence of the Brisbane Wheel at night. Neither of them are particularly good.

	
The Brisbane Wheel at night.


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		<title>Day 19: Darwin zoos</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/414/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a spare day in Darwin before I flew back to Brisbane. I checked out a few zoos around the place.
Crocosaurus Cove

	
Crocosaurus Cove sign



	
Crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of juvenile crocs at Crocosaurus Cove


	
Overhead view of Crocosaurus Cove


	
Underwater viewing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 18: Fogg Dam</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-18-fogg-dam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After leaving Kakadu, we drove north towards Humpty Doo, the town closest to Fogg Dam. We arrived in the late afternoon.

	
The sign at the entrance to the Fogg Dam Conservation Park.


In the 1950s Fogg Dam was constructed in the western part of the Adelaide River floodplain for the Humpty Doo Rice Project. The agricultural project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 16 &amp; 17: Kakadu</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/days-16-17-kakadu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/days-16-17-kakadu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our way from Mt Isa we stopped at Elsey National Park. I had wanted to find some water monitors (both Mertens&#8217; and Mitchell&#8217;s water monitors are known from the area), but had no luck on this front. We did manage to find some frogs and some skinks.

	
Varanus mertensi &#038; Varanus mitchelli habitat (supposedly).



	
Litoria meiriana


	
Carlia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 14 &amp; 15: Mt Isa and Daly Waters</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/days-14-15-mt-isa-and-daly-waters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove from Undara to Mt Isa, arriving in the late afternoon. We got a room at the local caravan park, then headed out onto the roads. We only found one animal, but it was an interesting one. We found this pygmy mulga snake (Pseudechis weigeli/Pseudechis &#8216;pailsus&#8216;) on the side of the road. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13: Undara Volcanic National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-13-undara-volcanic-national-park/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-13-undara-volcanic-national-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chillagoe we headed to Undara Volcanic National Park. Undara wasn&#8217;t a planned stop, but we were in the area and I&#8217;d heard good things about Undara. I was surprised to find that the only way you can access the national park is to go on a (relatively expensive) tour with the Undara Experience people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 12: Chillagoe</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2009/01/day-12-chillagoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we left the Atherton Tablelands, we stopped at Granite Gorge to see some cute little Mareeba rock wallabies (Petrogale mareeba). We saw a few frilled dragons (Chlamydosaurus kingii) run off the road. One ran up a tree, while the other ran up a termite mound.

	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).



	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).


	
Frilled dragon (Chlamydosaurus kingii).


	
Mareeba [...]]]></description>
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