Beautiful monitor lizards

Check out this picture of a monitor lizard taken today in a mangrove swamp nature reserve on the North coast of S'pore. They can be up to 2,5 m long and this one was definitely big. They are big but somehow sympathetic looking. They hang out, wondering about or lying in the water flickering their 20 cm Y-tipped tongue. They can get going though, we saw one chase another. And when they se they really move fast.
A guide/photographer told us that they sometimes sight crocodiled their. He showed us a beautiful pocture of a crocodile that had just caught a fish. Sighting chances are best at low tide and we were of course there exactly at high tide.
Domatella and Nathanael have had a great time here. They are flying back home tonight. There is a öittle panic because Nathanael just bumåed his head rather nastily while playing in the pool with Timo - a k a tomfoolery in the Plunge.