We had to be dressed in full safety gear. The land was covered in spinifex, a spiny grass, that could poke through the heaviest canvas and leave its little points in your skin to get infected and itchy for weeks later. Luckily, we all had thick gaiters and gloves to protect us.

Along the coast, in some rocky outcrops there were all kinds of layers exposed. In some layers there were marine fossils, this coral is entirely embedded in the rock (sandstone/mudstone), all around it were other intact corals, molluscs and bivalves, all set in stone. The sand dollar below is a perfect specimen, most of the others were at odd angles and were only partials. Dont know how old the rock is but seeing as how Australia is the oldest continent on the planet, im guessing the fossils are pretty old too.

This little bearded dragon (an Agamid of some sort) jumped in front of me when we were doing a night collection. He was not so keen to get his photo taken. A large perentie (2nd largest monitor lizard in the world after the Komodo) was basking in the sun as we were taking samples. She was at least a metre and a half maybe two, and eyed us suspiciously while we went about our business.