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Approaching island of dragons
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Heading to Komodo in style, comfort and safety...
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Oh good - salt water crocodiles will eat you if the dragons don't.
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Danger - Giant Geckos
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Step off the boat, meet a dragon. All without getting as far as the ranger entry station
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Big gecko
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Dragon between the boat and ranger station
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Dragon with lethal saliva dribbling out
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Dragon and lethal saliva
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Living dinosaur
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Tasting the air
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Tasting the ground
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Sinister. Very sinister
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Nearest thing these things do to "cute"
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Hiding under a house
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In the village
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Not what you want under your house really
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Out for a stroll
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Dying Buffalo after being bitten by a Komodo Dragon a week ago.
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Injured water Buffalo in a small pool. Bitten by a Dragon a week ago the infection is taking hold and it'll be dead in a few days. A dragon (top right) keeps watch and waits.
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Injured water Buffalo in a small pool. Bitten by a Dragon a week ago the infection is taking hold and it'll be dead in a few days. A dragon (top right) keeps watch and waits.
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Dragon in the forest watching over the dying buffalo
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A weak and injured Buffalo looks towards a Komodo Dragon (background, top right). The buffalo was bitten by a dragon about a week ago and will die from the massive infection from the bite in a few days time.
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Dragon guarding its nest
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Komodo Dragon nest
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Lots of dragons under a house
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Skulls of various Dragon victims
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Path to the range station through the mangroves