This is a blue-tongue lizard, common in gardens around here. They're about 8" long and rather attractive.



If I were you Jessie, and I'd chased one of these beggars into an old piece of pipe, I would stick my head in one end and bark madly so that it echoed weirdly, then I'd dig furiously at the end of the pipe, even pick it up in my teeth and growl down it in frustration. Then I'd run around to the other end and bark hysterically through that too.

Oh, you've tried that already? I just thought I'd suggest it.