Hi everyone,

I was lifting up a set of Saab wheel covers the other day which was stored
on the tiled floor in our laundry near the clothes dryer, and the picture
you can find at:

http://www.saab900classic.net/gallery/craig.dewick/P1300012.html

tells the story. It's a rare Southern Leaf Tailed Gecko (aka Phyllurus
Platurus!), and it's living the high life with a nice well-protected
'home' inside the bottom two wheel covers in a stack of four, and because
they're sitting next to the corner of the room where our clothes dryer
sits, it's always warm and usually moist, and the fluff in the picture has
come from many loads of clothes being put through the dryer!

I now call it the Saab Skink (tm) which isn't quite accurate, but Saab
Gecko doesn't really work. 8-)

Given that we live directly on the edge of the Royal National Park in
Waterfall (Sydney, Australia), this is quite a good find as in the 8 years
we've been here I've never seen a leaf-tailed gecko here before, although
we have had quite a few interesting visitors to the yard since the big
bushfires of Christmas day 2001...

Ok, back to our normal programming. 8-)

Regards,

Craig.