My garden of dragons...

It was what we would call an autumn day… early April, when we relish the sunshine that warms the slight breeze. Casually minding our own business, we walked around the corner to the Kingfisher apartment at Vatu Sanctuary, when suddenly my foot froze in mid step. I was standing on one leg, with the other foot hovering in mid air.



There sitting on the steps to the apartment was a baby dragon. I say baby dragon, but it could have been a young juvenile… he turned his head and looked up at me as if to say, yeah stay where you are… the juvenile dragon then took off.

The Long-nose Dragon (G. longirostris), sometimes spelt Long-nosed Dragon, is a species of lizard that has been reclassified a number of times as further studies revise its relationship among Australian agamid lizards. Previously known as Lophognathus, Physignathus, Gemmatophora and Amphibolurus, it is now assigned to the genus Gowidon.

Source: Long-nose Dragon, Ausemade

It is now November… and it was like déjà vu. Walking around the corner to the Kingfisher apartment, I froze again. There he was. I am assuming it was the same young dragon, except he was a little bit older and bigger… maybe a teenager or a young adult… warming himself in the morning sun.

He turned around slowly, whilst keeping an eye on me. He looked straight up at my face and then turned his head and cocked one eye up at me, before turning forward to face me. It was a showdown. I backed away slowly… no point risking a confrontation, I smiled to myself.