Reptiles of South-east Queensland

Elegant Snake-eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher), Boronia Heights.

Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata), Edens Landing.

Macquarie Turtle (Emydura macquarii), Joyner.

Garden Skink (Lampropholis delicata), Varsity Lakes.

Dark Bar-sided Skink (Eulamprus martini), Parklands.

Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis), Mooloolaba.

Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii), South Brisbane.

Copper-tailed Skink (Ctenotus taeniolatus), Woorim.

Lace Monitor (Varanus varius), Noosa Heads.

Nobbi Dragon (Diporiphora nobbi), Joyner.

Carpet Python (Morelia spilota), Mount Glorious.

Eastern Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus), Seven Hills.

Burton's Snake-Lizard (Lialis burtonis), Seven Hills.

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Suburb Guide: Underwood

The pastel love flower is a charming, shade-loving native plant. The stretch of highway on the way to the Gold Coast running between Mount Gravatt and Yatala has always been a bit of a vague blur to me at the best of times, and a peak hour nuisance at worst. An endless strip of superstores, car dealerships and fast food outlets, I tend to hurry on through as quickly as the traffic will allow, chasing greener horizons further south. It turns out that the view from the M1 doesn’t really do this area justice though, as I found out recently while exploring the Logan suburb of Underwood.

Gull lover's travels

Ring-billed gull, Corolla, North Carolina. Gulls have always interested me, perhaps because despite there being over fifty different species of them around the world, only one is familiar to me as a Queensland resident.

Creek Fishing in the Redlands

Hilliards Creek Situated to the south-east of Brisbane, the Redlands shire encompasses many areas of natural beauty, including the Cleveland foreshore and North Stradbroke Island. It is also one of the fastest growing suburban areas in Australia, and would be unrecognisable to those who knew it as a rural outpost just 25 years ago. Despite this surge in development, even the busy suburbs of Wellington Point, Ormiston and Cleveland retain areas of natural bushland set aside to preserve populations of Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis), from which other forms of wildlife benefit also. On my visit there today, I was interested in looking at how these other creatures are faring, particularly the fish living in Hilliards Creek.

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