Basking Monitor
Seen on the banks of a Top End inland river in Australia's Northern Terrritory, is a Mertens' Water Monitor, Varanus mertensi. This one was only about 75cm in total length although they can grown to about 1.1m. Talk about no fear of humans. I had my back to it as I was taking some other shots and nearly stood on the poor thing before a friend told me it was there. Even then it didn't worry about this human invading its space ... one of those feel good encounters with plenty of time to appreciate the markings etc.
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Basking Monitor
Seen on the banks of a Top End inland river in Australia's Northern Terrritory, is a Mertens' Water Monitor, Varanus mertensi. This one was only about 75cm in total length although they can grown to about 1.1m. Talk about no fear of humans. I had my back to it as I was taking some other shots and nearly stood on the poor thing before a friend told me it was there. Even then it didn't worry about this human invading its space ... one of those feel good encounters with plenty of time to appreciate the markings etc.
Sincere thanks for visiting my Australian nature offerings!
All my photographs are © Copyrighted & All Rights Reserved. Please do not reproduce or transmit in any form or by any means without full acknowledgement of it being my work. Use without permission is illegal so please contact me first if you’d like to use it.