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Had a trip up to the Pilbara recently. Here are some pics:

Camp:


Terrain:






Snappy Gum:


Bush tomato (good tucker):


Spinifex:


Mulga tree and spinifex:


All the rock is pure iron ore:


Permanent waterhole in cliff/gorge:


Morethia ruficaudata (redtail skink):


Ctenotis saxitallis:


Walk out there without water and you die:




Gecko:


Permanent spring and waterhole in gorge:


Litoria rubella (desert tree frog):


Baby Olive Python:


Figs at permanent spring (good tucker):


Gorge with permanent spring from above:


Pseudomys hermansbergensis (sandy inland mouse):


Another gecko:


Sturt's desert pea:


Cave shelter:




Vespadelus bat:


Taphozous georginus:


As I said the rocks are almost pure iron (Chinese pay lots for our iron ore):




Some things that are not so good in your sleeping bag....
Mygalomorph spider:


Scorpion:


Ningaui (a predatory marsupial):


Delma pax (legless lizard):


Another skink with an attitude:


Uperoleia russelli (burrowing frog):

Is Pilbara some kind of self-service Zoo? Small some of the creeps you handle but you beat me, if I had been there you would have seen a fast running, fucking scared Norwegian

It is winter/dry season up there now so not many animals out compared to the cyclone season Dec-May.

A pack of dingos/wild dogs stalked two friends when they were hiking in a gorge alone - one got within 5m and they had to throw rocks at them. Freaky stuff.

But I could imagine Overlord running through the desert with one of these "man-eaters" chasing you: