Bart Bear's Blog

Now here's a sign that really means it. You would expect a place called Lizard Island to have lizards on it, so Mum and I went looking for them. As soon as the oldies got out of the water that is. Sometimes I think that their ancestors must have been mer-people. We were visiting the island on our 2005 Barrier Reef cruise on Captain Cook's "Reef Endeavour". Anyhow, we walked across the island trying to find some of the big goannas that Cap'n Cook named the island after. The only one we saw was crossing the path but we didn't get his picture because a group of noisy old ladies came along and scared him off. When we got back to the beach Dad took this picture of Mum and I leaning on the sign just to prove we had been there and guess what, this little gecko was hiding on the back of the sign. Mum really loves geckoes and I don't mind them because they aren't as scary as goannas, so I have put a bigger picture of him in the corner.

Labels: animals, Barrier Reef, Captain Cook, cruising, Queensland