The Australian National Botanic Gardens in ACT, offers a great opportunity to get up close with some of Australia’s Lizards, hundreds of them in fact. I wouldn’t say they are approachable, you can get reasonably close but you will still need a long lens. I used a 70-200mm for the images here which gave me scope to frame with the lens.
Australian Lorikeet
The Australia Lorikeets are in great abundance on the east coast, even in the big cities and towns. They are cheeky as

