Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dragons of a Singapore lilypond

So a couple of weeks ago my Singapore connections week was largely dragon themed with flying dragon lizards, dragonfish in ponds and captive leafy sea dragons. I could've filled out the week with dragons if I'd wanted thanks in part to the Singapore Botanic Gardens lily-pond.

liliesPrime dragon habitat.

Below is dragon #1. This may be one of my favourite photos ever. Not sure why, I just love it.

dragonfly1 

I'm afraid I have no idea of the species.

I also have no idea of what dragon #2 is.
dragonfly2

I'm thinking you were maybe expecting something more scaly, reptilian and menacing as a result of my use of the word dragon? Well there were a few of these swimming across or wandering around the pond as well.....

monitor

Will he do?

4 comments:

Julia said...

Nice! Especially the monitor, of course.

R.Powers said...

Yes, he'll do just fine!

Sally said...

All three of them are fabulous-- lucky you!! What kind of monitor is he/she, do you know? (I was once acquainted with a Dumeril's and they're also lovely.)

tai haku said...

Thanks all.

Sally - it's an asian water monitor (V. salvator)