My wife Monica spotted this well-camouflaged small dragon in the leaf litter. I recognized it as a Diporiphora species that I had not previously seen, but wasn’t familiar enough with the different species in this genus to identify it further. After some research, I concluded that it is probably D. magna, though I haven’t yet seen another photo that is this mostly uniform dark brown color.

I’ve written up an account of this three-week trip to Australia here.

Not far down the road, we pulled over to poke around near a very attractive rock pile, because it looked like the kind of place in which the cool lizards would hang out. And indeed this little guy was doing that very thing.