Managing monotremes

LOOKING FOR FOOTPRINTS IN WATER

Kwere EEPING DRY AND WARM tough for Doug Gimesy while on assignment for our platypus conservation article: “The biggest challenge when photographing in a stream is usually making sure you don’t get down so low that water flows over and into your waders. However, on my last field day for this assignment, water issues came from below. I’d been kneeling in the middle of a small stream and as I stood up felt a tug near my knee. Seconds later I felt the cool flow of river water run down my leg and realised I’d ripped my waders. Was it a big issue? It wouldn’t have been if it had been in summer or happened at the end of the night, but when the air temperature was 3oC, the river water was 4oC, and it happened right at the start of the night, it was tough knowing I’d be going back into the water with leaking waders many more times that night to try to get the perfect shot!”