Nature thread

[rehabitat]

Oct 12, 2018 11:47:36 GMT -5 Thomas said:

Apr 18, 2018 0:47:11 GMT -5 rehabitat said:

At work a few weeks ago. Eastern Grey Kangaroo on the outskirts of Lithgow.

Lithgow??!! I saw glow worms there,a fair few years ago....!!

I live in the Blue Mountains to the east of Lithgow. Lots of glow worm caves around here.

[rehabitat]

Lace Monitor at work a few weeks ago

[Witchfynde]

Holy sh*t, those things are huge!

Are they closely related to the Komodo Dragons, or are those totally different?

[rehabitat]

They are both in the genus Varanus, so yeah pretty close. This was a pretty big fella, about 1.8 metres. At Mulgoa Creek, in the foothills of the mountains. They are usually timid solitary creatures, I guess from being hunted by aborigines, but they can be a nuisance when they form scavenging gangs at campsites. Recently discovered to be venomous like their Komodo brothers. I think the worst thing that can happen is they get spooked and make you out to be a tree to climb. That would get ugly very quickly.

[Witchfynde]

^Sounds it!

Couple of pics from a real heavy fog we had last month, which they didn't even do it justice, as fog can be hard to capture.

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(I don't know why Picload won't allow direct links any more.)

[Witchfynde]

Bit of a half and half thing here: half nature, half city when I took this the other week. (The original pic is clearer, by the way.)