Went down to Warriewood nursery to buy some tomato plants for Jac's garden, and spotted this little critter hiding amongst the ferns. It's a young blue tongue lizard, and we absolutly love this lizard, as it's main diet is the notorious Sydney black funnelweb spider, a most deadly spider , has caused a few deaths over the years, and the blue tongue lizard loves eating them. Problem is, the blue tongue lizard is a very slow lizard, and their numbers have been in decline due to cats, domestic cats. Australia never had cats or dogs before white man arrived, so the lizard never had to protect itself against a cat ( and you know what cats are like, if it moves, they chase it and play with it till it's dead ) so when more houses were being built and more pets came with that, the blue tongue lizard population dwindled, the only real enemy they had was the crows and magpies ( birds ) , but even then they had a defense mechanism, where they could , somehow, cut of their own tail, so if the bird caught them by their tail, it would drop of and the bird would be left with just the tail, that's why when you see the more mature blue tongue lizards they all have stubby tails, as opposed to this younger one that obvioulsy hasn't been spotted yet by a bird