Black Rock Skinks tend to live in family groups ... among rocks. This family has taken up residence in the trunk of a large fallen eucalypt, about a 1.5m above ground. Perfect eye height for me!

Egernia saxatilis (link to iNaturalist record ... and a later sighting here)

My first snake sighting of spring ... a large, shiny Red-bellied Black Snake. Wary, but also reluctant to move away. Both of us.

Pseudechis porphyriacus (link to iNaturalist record)

Identification of this species is child's play.

Pseudechis porphyriacus (link to iNaturalist record)