For the most part the critters we encountered at Uluru and Kings Canyon were timid and did not easily allow themselves to be photographed.<\/p>\n
This Ring-tailed Dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus) <\/em>at the start of the Kings Canyon rim walk was one notable exception.<\/p>\n He was happy to sit here on this rock watching just meters from the walkers passing along the trail, most of whom did not even notice him there.<\/p>\n Only when I started crawling up to him on my belly did other passers by take notice. I’d swear the expression on that dragon’s face was amusement at a human on his level.<\/p>\n Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Ringed Tailed Dragon’, 1\/100s f\/8 ISO100 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the most part the critters we encountered at Uluru and Kings Canyon were timid and did not easily allow themselves to be photographed. This Ring-tailed Dragon (Ctenophorus caudicinctus) at the start of the Kings Canyon rim walk was one notable exception. He was happy to sit here on this rock watching just meters from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[754,1536,1548,1550,1533,1545,1549,1547,1537,765,1546],"class_list":["post-6022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-centralaustralia","tag-critter","tag-ctenophoruscaudicinctus","tag-desert","tag-dragon","tag-kingscanyon","tag-lizard","tag-northernterritory","tag-outback","tag-ringedtaileddragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}