Wild Lizard Chase
Back of beyond
The filming took us to three continents—Australia, Asia, and
North America—and certain locations made "remote" seem too
tame a word. We spent a month in Australia's deserts, most of the
time at Dr. Pianka's research camp called Red Sands in Western
Australia, which took three days of rattling along dirt roads just
to reach from Alice Springs in Central Australia. The camp lies a
full six hours from the nearest human outpost. This photo shows Dr.
Christian Rutz (left) and Lucas Bluff of the "lizardcam" team (see
later slide) working at the Red Sands camp.