Fairy shrimp in claypan after spring storm, Lorna Glen, Western Australia (Nov 2006)
Track through spinifex country, Great Victoria Desert (Oct 2006)
Multi-layered aboriginal art. Older “bradshaws” type art at bottom has been overlayed with more recent work. Central Kimberley, Western Australia (August 2007)
Pebble dragon, Tympanocryptis cephalus. Great Victoria Desert (Oct 2006)
Julian Reid surveys the gibber plain, Northern South Australia (August 2006)
Abandoned sheep shearer’s quarters, Lake Mason Station, Western Australia Goldfields (Oct 2006)
Lerista picturata, Goongarrie Station, WA. This is the sister genus to Ctenotus and is also extremely diverse in the arid zone, with ~80 nominate species (Oct 2006)
Mark Cowan admiring a large mulga snake (Psuedechis australis) that came up with the well water. Yeo Lake, Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia (Dec 2004)
Feral camels in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory. Kata Tjuta rises above the dunes on the far horizon (Aug 2006)
Random field photos from work in interior Australia, 2004-present
Sturt’s desert pea in bloom, stony desert country, northern South Australia (August 2004)
A (typically) rugged track through the Hamersley Range, Pilbara, Western Australia (Sept 2004)
With giant eucalypts, near Denmark, Western Australia (Jan 2005)
Storm over regenerating spinifex with hakea trees, far western Great Victoria Desert, (November 2006)
Fat-tailed dunnart, a small insectivorous marsupial. Lorna Glen, Western Australia (Oct 2006)
Yellow-spotted monitor, northern Goldfields, Western Australia (Nov 2004)
Red kangaroo taking refuge from summer heat in old shearer’s shed on abandoned sheep station, Western Australia (Feb 2005)
During severe drought years, kangaroos congregate in any well-shaded crevices/caves that provide refuge from the summer heat. If the drought continues, these shaded coves become mass graves (Oct 2006)
Crocodylus johnstoni, a “freshie”. Central Kimberley, Western Australia (Aug 2007)
Crossing the Pentecost River, eastern Kimberley region, Western Australia (Aug 2007)
