Goanna

[123rover50]

I was sitting on the back steps last night cutting my hair and this walked past my bare feet only a yard away. I was more concerned than it was.
Even after I got up to get the camera it was not disturbed. Its the biggest I have seen around here anyway, it would be 2 1/2 feet long.

Keith

[67hardtop]

Dinner....

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[Ausfree]

Yeah, they are reasonably common around here also. I know them as Monitor Lizards although the one in my photo appears darker than the one near you.:) I photographed this one a couple of years ago.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/12/537.jpg (http://s756.photobucket.com/user/Ausfree/media/LukesGrandFianl2013019_zpsbc46cec4.jpg.html)

ps. On second look, I think they are different. Mine is a darker colour and the tail is longer.

[Saitch]

Jim, very similar to this bloke. It's a juvenile about 2' long. They seem to lose their markings with age.
The 2nd pic is of mum/dad, I would think. It's around 5' & pretty cruisey. Our resident magpies, kookies etc. don't like it much. This pic is of it returning from a trip to our dam, where it caught & ate a half grown Eastern water monitor, of which we have several.
Isn't Nature wonderful?
Steve

[JDNSW]

My dog is on a vacation at my son's place at the moment, so the goannas are getting a bit more cheeky. Having lunch the other day, a smallish one, about three feet long, took a stroll along my front verandah. I didn't get the camera as I was on the phone at the time.

There are quite a few round here, but the dog normally chases them away from the house - she's very territorial.

John

[p38arover]

A lace monitor like these I photographed a while back? The first was just ambling along the path as I followed. The second bloke didn't seem to care how close I got with my camera.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/12/534.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/12/535.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/12/536.jpg

[cuppabillytea]

This one was shy. It did the Harold Holt when I got closer.

[Eevo]

what you goanna do?

[loanrangie]

I thought this was about Shane Howard and band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_%28band%29

[cuppabillytea]

A lace monitor like these I photographed a while back? The first was just ambling along the path as I followed. The second bloke didn't seem to care how close I got with my camera.

Looks like he's interested in a bit of carrion with a funny haircut. :p :wasntme:

[p38arover]

Looks like he's interested in a bit of carrion with a funny haircut. :p :wasntme:

The "carrion" was a bloke who was happy to lie down near it whilst I took the pic.

[Boxhead63]

When we were living in Derby WA we were the first tenants in our company supplied brand new house, in our first week of being there our dogs started going off one night. I went to investigate and found the problem was a baby Perentie about 6-8" long eating out of the dog kibble. Our big dog a Sharpei X was really concerned about it and carrying on. I removed said lizard and took it for a walk over to the mud flats albeit in the nude at 02:00. A few days later whilst i was up the GRR, her esteemed excellency calls on the Sat Phone, the lizard is back and it's hanging on to Reggies nose. My response was just go out there and it will probably break loose and run off. It did! Straight up her leg.. neighbours were quickly in attendance with all the commotion. Lizard was quickly and unceremoniously removed to the mudflats again!...Upshot of it all was what we think was the same Perentie over a couple of years until we left regularly visited and tormented the dogs and left in awe of it's growth rate. The whole time my little bloke watched this beautiful creature come and visit us, get rid of a few pests like the bloody crickets. Somewhat a symbiotic relationship. Gee the only reptiles that visit us now is the odd Black and Brown snakes. The Sharpei X is now gone and our vet suspects that it was Brown that got her. So, whenever our 3yo daughter comes in from the back yard and tell us there is a pretty stick in the yard we start running.

Oh how I miss The Kimberley.


Cheers.
Rob

[mick88]

My wife took these snaps out the front of our place a couple of weeks back.

[kelvo]

After all those monsters I feel a bit disappointed with my baby :(

Still skinny after winter, this was taken at the end of August, it's having a feed on a Honeyeater chick.