[moloch]

Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia) is a long and narrow city that borders the ocean to the east and a plateau to the west. The edge of the plateau is steep and near the top, there are often rocky cliffs.





In January, I began walking along these cliffs at night to see if I could find Broad-tailed Geckos (Phyllurus platurus). On the second attempt, I found this beautiful juvenile with a perfect tail. It was wonderfully cryptic and I only saw it because it moved.






Over the next couple of weeks, I saw a few more. These were all adults.












These geckos are amazing. They generally do not move even when I am standing nearby. They must rely on their disruptive pattern to hide themselves from potential danger.

Lately, I have been unable to relocate the geckos. There are many cliffs and crevices so it would not be hard for the geckos to remain out of sight.

[Strophurus]

Hello, well very interesting Geckos, must be wonderfull to search for those animals. The juvie platurus on the first pic has some red markings on his scales, like Nathan and i have regonized also on some of our ciliaris.
very interesting pictures as usual
regards stefan

[Jan Grathwohl]

Very nice specimens - lovely photos as always

[Minhawali]

Very nice shots, David.

Johan.

[Justin]

Thanks very much for the photos, excellent shots and very useful as habitat guides.

[Ken Bartenfeld]

[MiCh@3L]

great - like always, David!

[Brandon]

great pics! I am especially fond of the habitat shots you've given us lately

[Derek]

Awesome habitat and phyllurus pics!

Derek

[Ken Bartenfeld]

Man o man!!! I just wanna camp in that spot! And have me a little fire, roast some marshmellows, mmm...!

Thanks for the photos AGAIN!