~HANDSOME DEVILS~

An eastern water dragon poses impressively at Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane.

The sky fills with little red flying foxes - nomadic & temporary visitors sharing the roosts of local bats - as they prepare for their evening forage run.

A resident green tree frog in its chosen home in a Deagon yard.

A juvenile rough-scaled python (Morelia carinata, Western Australia) in the palm of its handler, South-East Queensland.

Flying foxes take to the sky over Deagon from a local mangrove-tree colony.

A short-necked turtle in Einbunpin Lagoon, Sandgate.

Graham & an intercepted carpet python on his bush property in north-eastern New South Wales.

Flying foxes recently returned to their daytime roosts in suburban mangrove forest after a night of feeding.

An eastern water dragon basking atop a suitable sculpture in a city park.

A tree snake, shy & harmless to humans, seeks refuge in a mangrove tree.

A gecko & its reflection in the shop window of a Sandgate bakery.

Cacophis harriettae is a small and only mildly venomous local reptile.

A dead-end street at dusk near the local flying fox colony.

A carpet python avoids the intrusive humans by taking to a mangrove tree on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek.

Flying foxes taking up position in the local roost.

A frog resting in potted plants at the local train station.

A common tree snake (Dendrelaphis punctulata), seeking a less conspicuous spot, aims at an overhanging mangrove tree.

An eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii) enjoying the heat from a pathway in Roma Street Parkland.