Through Pelf's Eyes

Turtle Tracks on Chagar Hutang beach

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:39 +0800

Turtle tracks on Chagar Hutang beach, the major turtle nesting beach on Redang Island, Terengganu, Malaysia. Green turtles leave tracks about 1m across, whereas hawksbill turtles leave smaller tracks, about 60cm across.

Baby leopard tortoises

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:56 +0800

Leopard tortoises (Geochelone pardalis) are found throughout the savannas of Africa, from Sudan to the southern Cape. Aren't these babies cute?

Philadelphia from Balloon

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:50 +0800

This is a part of Philadelphia, taken from a hot air balloon in the oldest zoo in North America -- the Philadelphia Zoo.

Blue flowers

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:23 +0800

These prickly, blue flowers were among 101 other kinds of flowers found at my host's place in Nova Scotia, Canada. These flowers look like a variety of a local species, but green in colour. Anybody knows what is the name of these flowers?

Two-headed shingleback

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:51 +0800

The two-headed shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa) is also known as bobtail, stump-tailed skink, bogeyes, and the Pinecone or Australian sleepy lizard. It is a short-tailed and slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink found in Australia.