Critters of Yeppoon

13/03/2026

Pristimantis achatinus, a type of rain frog, in the gardens of the Yellow house. 70-shot stack.

11/03/2026

07/03/2026

Dragonfly beside the pond at dawn. 70-shot stack.

05/03/2026

Pristimantis achatinus, with many common names the coolest of which is the Cachabi robber frog.This little guy was making a bit of a racket on an elongate leaf hanging over a small pond in the grounds of the casa amarilla in Mindo. 67-shot stack.

04/03/2026

Paper wasp nest. 63-shot stack.

27/02/2026

A small beetle (Aegithus sp. ) in the mindo cloud rainforest. 52-shot stack.

25/02/2026

The Red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), endemic to the Galapagos Islands and coastal Ecuador, is a truly bizarre critter. About the size of your hand, its fins have evolved into limbs that enable it to walk along the seafloor. It hunts for small fish and crustaceans using suction feeding to hoover up prey, and can change body colour to blend into the background coral and has evolved a specialised fin ray that extends outward on top of its head, the tip of which emits a bright light to lure prey to its mouth in the dark. We dived deep below the thermocline into brisk 18 degree C water off Isla Fernandina in search of this bizarro critter and were rewarded with sightings of two individuals on the seafloor at 32-metres depth.

24/02/2026

A Spiny orb weaver (Micrathena sp) with prey. 114-shot stack.

22/02/2026

A tiny Tambja mullineri nudibranch, endemic to the Galapagos, on a steep wall at 18-m off Isla Fernandina.

20/02/2026

Millipede. 31-sh*t stack.

17/02/2026

A large Wandering spider waits patiently for prey 88-shot stack.

16/02/2026

The bizarre underside of a spiny orb weaver (Micrathena sp). 45-shot stack.