My wife Monica and I were driving down a dirt track with our new-found Australian friends Martin Cohen and Julia Cooper chatting about the local herps. Martin said "the most common gecko around here is Bynoe's Gecko — you'll find a few under every piece of tin you come across." Just then we drove past a few discarded pieces of tin... you can guess the rest.

Martin and Julia now run Wild About Australia, so others can benefit from their wildlife expertise as I did.

Here is a complete list of the reptiles and frogs I saw on this trip to Australia.

This bumpy little gecko was extremely common around Australia's west coast also. It was probably the most numerous reptile I saw there, though the Shingleback gave it competition in this category. This one was lurking under a rock in an undeveloped area just across the street from the Kalbarri Palm Resort, where we were staying.

Here is a complete list of the reptiles and frogs I saw on this trip to Western Australia.

Bynoe's Gecko is widespread in Australia. Some researchers believe that it's really a complex of related species, but further studies would be needed to untangle the taxonomic situation. This one was under a flat rock near the Nature's Window formation in Kalbarri National Park.

This is a tiny baby, with a total length of perhaps an inch and a half. It was under a board at the makeshift golf course on the outskirts of Denham. Many boards were scattered about here, and most of them harbored Bynoe's Geckos. I also found one other type of gecko sharing the same type of accommodations, a Variegated Dtella.