I think there is some controversary over whether they are lizards or skinks, but they do have blue tongues! Not that this one was prepared to show it. There is also a pink tongue variety. The lizard was sunning himself at the base of our bottlebrush tree.
You managed to get a nice composition of this Blue tongue. When our son was in Primary School he kept lizards. When he was about 12, he asked us if he could release them into their natural environment. I often wonder how they fared as some of them were bred and fed at our place.
