
Nah, a blue tongue lizard. But when you first see them and only see their head or part of their body it's hard to tell. I saw this guy while I was cleaning up in one of the windbreaks. Being the start of winter he was pretty slow, so I could grab my camera and take a few pictures. He hissed a couple of times, but wasn't into showing off so I couldn't get any photos of why they get their name ;)


The are well camouflaged in the leaf litter, just are many of our snakes. More often that not it's the tell tale rustle of the leaves that gives them away:
