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A selection from Down Under! |
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Brisbane
Forest Park and Australia Zoo |
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 After 3 flights and 24 hours in the air we were glad to arrive. |
 The All Pommie Hunter! |
 No, I didn't run the roo over, she was just cooling off in the shade |
  Koala doing what they do sleep! Also a Kookaburra carefully watching every move. |
 Making friends to one of my favourite monitor species the Lace Monitor Varanus varius |
 Harriet a Giant Galápagos tortoise Geochelone nigra porteri at Steve Irwin's zoo, located at the glass house mountains. She is said to have been born in 1830, this would make her the oldest living creature on earth. |
 Merton's Water Monitor Varanus mertensi |
 The Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan Oxyuranus microlepidotus the world's most toxic land snake. |
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Lamington
National Park |
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 20,200 hectares, The largest sub tropical rainforest |
 Bar-sided Skink Eulamprus tenuis |
 Re-homing a Carpet Python Morlelia spilota |
 Koala, oh sleeping too Phascolarctos cinereus |
 Land Mullet Egernia major , one of the largest skinks |
 Red-Bellied Black Snake Pseudechis porphyriacus Strong contender in the most dangerous snakes category. |
 Making new friends Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans |
 come to join the party? Left: Regent Bowerbird Sericulus chrysocephalus Right: Female Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus |
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Uluru-kata Tjuta
National Park Northern Territory |
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 The Red Centre |
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Canegrass two-line dragon Diporiphora winneckei
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 Galah Cacatua roseicapilla |
 Stick insect - Female Subfamily Phasmatinae Acknowledgement: Peter Miller - www.acay.com.au/~pmiller |
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| Cairns North Queensland |
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 Wet Tropics |
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 Unknown Gecko Species Oedura rhombifer ? |
 Green Tree-frog Litoria caerulea |
 Eastern Bearded Dragon Pogona barbata |
 Freshwater Crocodile Crocodylus johnstoni |
 Unknown frog species |
 Rhinoceros Beetles Xylotrupes gideon |
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| Cape
Tribulation Daintree Rainforest National Park |
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  The Daintree River |
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 Unknown Gecko Species Gehyra variegata ? |
 Jewel Spider Gasteracantha minax |
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| Sydney New South Wales |
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  Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca |
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| Fraser
Island off the east coast of Australia |
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 Cream-striped Shinning Skink Cyptoblepharus virgatus |
 Male fiddler Crab |
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Friday November 15th 2002 |
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 The purpose of our trip, we got married on an Island of soft sand beach's, in front of crystal clear oceans, it couldn't have been better! Thank you to everyone who helped our special day and honeymoon be the best possible! |
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Captive bred Mediterranean
tortoises for sale, care, and advice from experienced breeder |
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