While The Doc did not get as many wildlife photographs as he would have liked. He did get some of the albino echidna (which is actually light brown), some of the Bennett’s Wallaby and a few of the very uncooperative wombats. No pademelons or potoroos though.

It takes time to study wildlife to get the best shots, as The Doc began to understand the Bennett’s Wallaby (a sub species of the mainland Red-neck Wallaby) and the Pademelons, he run out of time. He never saw the potoroos.

There are some nice shots of the echidna which co-operated quite a bit, but the white background against the darker echidna posed a challenge.

The Doc did see some very young Masked Lapwings, less than 48 hours old. Their camouflage was near perfect. When approached the adults flew away making a racket trying to get you to follow them. They never gave away the chicks position.

The chicks, in contrast hid and stayed perfectly still, even when The Doc removed a blade of grass less than 1 centimetre from the chick. There were 3 chicks, one quickly ran away into the filed. The other 2 were by the roadside.

The Doc could see them but walked away to see what they would do, he saw one move but the second was gone. The last chick moved slightly and then the Doc could not see it, until he found 2 chicks in a little indentation in the dry mud next to the road. They were barely visible, extraordinary camouflage. You can see the eye of the chick on the right. You can see how the skin around the eye is like seeding heads, to aid camouflage at this young age. The Doc did not stay long to ensure the parents returned to the chicks.

The post processing has revealed more of the chicks, but looking at them in real life was much harder.

Plus a couple of poor shots of reptiles, the harmless blue tongue lizard and the deadly tiger snake. The Doc decided not to get out of the car for the tiger snake. Earlier in the trip he walked near one while at Trousers Point, but was more interested in avoiding it than photographing it.