Palau Tioman monitor lizards

Whilst on a trip to Palau Tioman, our accommodation near Ayer Batang, popularly known as ABC village is a well known backpacker haunt with numerous budget chalets. Stepping out of our accommodation, monitor lizards could be viewed sunning themselves on the rocks throughout the day - it was great.

I was surprised at the number of monitor lizards spotted around our accommodation, they are really interesting creatures, not acting in an aggressive manner at all. I have spent a fair amount of time working in central Australia finding the large lizards to be somewhat territorial at times. I was able to get really close to photograph these wonderful reptiles while they remained relaxed in human presence.