roughbarked said:

Well it has been since about 1981 when I first spied this skink inhabiting my garden. It was a paddock used to grow stock feed when we purchased it in 1979. Was wall to wall saffron thistle. Anyway by the time we had built a house and moved in I was aready making a garden. This bloody skink has been here all this time and today was the first time I managed to shoot it with a camera.
They usually dart away and are gone even if you do happen to have a camera in hand but today it not only allowed me to take a cople of photos but also allowed me to move slowly to the tap and turn the timer on above its head, so the watering could continue. It only moved after I walked away. Colour me surprised and happy. Did put it on iNaturalist.

It is only one of the many skinks in my yard and probably quite common but Ctenotus robustus took all this time to finally catch on camera. While I have had all manner of its other relatives on camera for decades.

Go hiontach!