Alberta-British Columbia Boundary.

Why don't you put the outhouse up for auction ?
Is it made out of plywood ?
Does it have power ?

All the 'Thunder Boxes' here in Ozz are made of weatherboards.

Maybe they call them Mullets because of these scales.

A very fishy lizard!

I see you have moved to Central Asia, ginger. What's the weather like in Azz?

I think admin are playing tricks again.
They usually have me in Austria.

Another Picture of the Mullet.
If I had caught it, I would be able to tell you if it smelt Fishy.

I almost stood on his tail.

I meant to say he is about 22" long.

He (or she) is beautiful, and quite a respectable size!

I have no black reptiles to show you, only black squirrels.

This is one of our smaller Carpet Snakes.
He was about 8' long and has a Prize Rooster in his belly.

I forgot to ask, are they seeds all those black spots in the Snow in your picture.

This is where the Carpet Snake likes to hide.
In My Rainforest Walk towards the front door.

Eeek! Was it your rooster inside the snake? If an 8-foot snake is small, how long are your large snakes? The largest snake I've encountered was a 6-foot Racer snake, when I was living in southeast Pennsylvania. Racer snakes used to hunt for mice and voles on my lawn, and I'd sometimes see the tail of a snake poking out of a hole in the ground. I didn't see an entire snake until one got caught up in a plastic net fence. I had hold the snake and cut the netting off it using scissors, and it wasn't very happy with me. I was wearing leather gloves, though, so when it tried to chew on my hand I was OK. I got rid of the plastic net fencing after I realized what a hazard it was to snakes - the holes in the net were just big enough to allow the front end of a snake to go through, but not its middle.

Yes, the black specks on the snow in my squirrel pic are sunflower seeds that have fallen out of bird feeders suspended above.

I don't have any Chooks at all.
It was a Neighbours Prize Bantam.
I went and got it out of his Pen.
Then I had to keep it till it passed the remains of the Rooster.
The Neighbour had to have the leg band as proof of the Roosters death.
Something to do with Club Insurance.
I just kept it in an empty Fish Tank till it pooped the Skeleton and Feathers.

Just touching back on the Land Mullet.
He lives on a National Park Trail at Springbrook.
The Hike is 17 kilometres long and is called Warrie Circuit.
We always add 5 kilometres by going out to 'The Pinnacle'.

This Picture was taken at the start of the walk.

Hi June,
I'm not sure if you have a Hotmail account ?
But today Hotmail have turned my world upside-down.
They have introduced a new set-up ???? for Hotmail accounts.
I am going to change to G-mail for sure.
Trouble is, I loose all my friends addresses.

I use G-mail, which seems to work fine, although I find it annoying that every time I log in, Google pesters me to change my browser to Chrome. My DH uses Hotmail as an interface for his Bell e-mail account, and it has worked fine for years, but lately the Hotmail server has begun to randomly delete some e-mails instead of forwarding them into his Bell in-box. He can't figure out what's going on. What is Hotmail doing to you? You might try posting on the Computer Forum, and see if anyone there knows what's going on with Hotmail.

How often do you walk the Warrie Circuit?

Because The Warrie Circuit is only 40 minutes drive for me.
I try to walk it once a month. (always alone)
I find it very relaxing and I do see a lot of new Plants and Critters there.
I always Photograph the new things and add them here when I get a ID on them.

What do you think of this ?

It looks prehistoric! Pretty colour. Is it edible?

Yes June it is edible.
But it is totally endemic to these National Parks.
And there is a $700 fine for removing them from the Parks.

Ooops! that was the wrong Picture.

It looks as if it's related to crayfish or lobster, but it seems quite at home on dry land. I would call it the Blue Land Lobster. What is its real name?

Lamington Spiny Cray (Euastacus sulcatus)

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/4946/

Crayfish I might have guessed, but not the rest of its name! I look forward to more challenging ID pics - I'm sure you have quite a lot of them.

When you were traveling in Canada, did you encounter our only marsupial, the Virginia Opossum? 'Possums are at the farthest north of their range in Ontario, and they sometimes lose their tail to frostbite. We usually only see them in winter, when they search for food during daylight on mild days, otherwise they are nocturnal.

Love the look of that Virginia Opossum.
And no, I have never seen one before.

I did spot this Critter on an North Canadian side trip.

Hey June,
Do you have totally nude National Parks in Canada ?
I don't mean the Park is naked. (that would be a Desert)
I mean the people who traverse the terrain within the Park.
I wonder how they carry their Scroggin ?
I have never been on that Hike !

Nice porcupine pic!

There are no nude parks around here that I know of, but I do have a neighbour who takes all his clothes off when he's walking in the woods or working in his garden in the heat of summer. I avert my eyes if we meet by accident.

Being nude in the outdoors doesn't appeal to me. I like to have a layer of clothing between me and the ticks, spiders, wasps, black flies, deer flies, and mosquitos. I am a bug magnet, and so I garden and hike completely covered head to toe. A burka would be perfect summer garb for me.

Do you have 'Leaches' in Canada ?
They are blood sucking snake like critters. ( approx. 4" long)
You never feel them attach to ones skin.
If pulled off physicly the wound goes on bleeding for hours.
Best way to remove them is with fire.
Like a match or a Cigaret Butt.

This Sign is on the Warrie Circuit.
It needs no explination.

I have never seen a Hiker wearing a berker.
That would scary the Crow out of me.

You said you wanted another challenge.
Well here it is.
What is this four legged Critter ?
Check out the gnat on his nose.

These two Pictures were taken on Mount Mitchell at Cunninghams Gap.

I'm going to guess this one is the Gnat-eating Zebra Lizard. Whatever his real name is, he's lovely!

Yes, we have leeches in Canada. I have them in my pond, and that's one reason I don't swim in it. They're tiny compared to your leeches, though.

The notice board lists an aboriginal name for a boomerang, but I always thought Boomerang WAS the aboriginal name of the hunting weapon that you throw and it comes back. Now I'm confused. Are there different types of boomerang or is a boomerang called different names in different parts of Ozz?

This Piucture was taken on My Property.
And it was the first time I haver seen them here.

These feisty little Skinks are not afraid to let you know they prefer to run about on the ground.
They can't really hurt at this age, as you can see, they don't have teeth yet.

Don't worry about not being able to answer my aboriginal language question, ginger. I'm pretty sure that in a country the size of Australia, there must be lots of aboriginal languages and dialects, just as there are in Canada. And before you ask, I'm no expert in Canadian native languages - I know "igloo" and "wigwam" and that's about it. Some Ontario towns, such as Toronto, Mississauga, Tecumseth, have native names (and, come to think of it, the name of the province sounds native too), but I have no clue what they mean.

Does your little striped lizard have a name?

We crossed posts. How big will your Skink grow, and when will it get teeth?

Ah yes, the Adult version of these young ones can give a very nasty bight.
The wound can take more than 12 months to heal.
And can continue troubling for many years to come.

At 22" long they are quite strong.
And 'no' I have never been bitten by one.
I think I would rather be bitten by a Grizzly Bear. ^_^

Their real name is: Anerythristic Baby Blue-Tongue Skink, Tiliqua scincoides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_scincoides_scincoides
http://www.ozanimals.com/Reptile/Common-Blue-Tongue/Tiliqua/scincoides.html

I get the impression that a lot of Australian critters have a venomous bite and/or lots of sharp teeth. You must need to be very careful when you are hiking or gardening.

99% of the time these critters keep out of our way.
In fact I have only ever seen one Deathadder in 33 years where I live.
Neighbours have them in their Swimming Pool all the time.

I was talking about “Hotmail” earlier.
The top part of this Picture has been My Hotmail for the last 8 years.
And now the new “Öutlook/hotmail” at the bottom of this Picture is all we get.
I am no GEEK, but this new one is total CRAP to Me.
I am changing to “Gmail” from now on.

A swimming pool with Deathadders in it sounds like something out of a Horror movie called 'Attack of the Killer Snakes'. There used to be a whole bunch of 'Attack' movies. Do you remember 'The Attack of the Killer Worms'? And 'The Attack of the Killer Rabbit'? And 'The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'?

My DH received an explanatory e-mail from Hotmail or Microsoft with instructions on how to use the new Hotmail/Outlook interface. Did you get those instructions?

I remember all those Killer Movies.

This is a typical Ozzy Outhouse.

This Picture was taken at Girraween National Park.
With all the rain we have gotten in the last 8 weeks.
This sign that is usually 7 meters out of the water got washed down stream.
Sambo and I dragged it back to its original place.
Hope it stays there for a long while.
Even if it is a tad crooked.