Flat out like a lizard drinkin' Rob!!
I didn't find the whole weekend that "stress free" though - during Friday night there was only Ron, Joy and myself staying in the camp, so I was somewhat surprised to see a light come on somewhere near the far end dorm, again keeping in mind that we are MILES from anywhere! Having nothing but a small handheld torch we (Joy and I) went to investigate. Half way there, with our voices obviously carrying ahead of us, the light went out again and we were plunged back into near darkness.
Hmmm .... now I'm not saying I had thoughts of Halloween-type axe murderers on the grounds, but it did look mighty suspicious! My ears were straining for any sounds and I kept the torch beam moving around quite a bit.
Arriving adjacent to the small set of stairs up to this dorm I realised it had to have been the "verandah" fluoro that had come on - yet we were not using this end of the camp at all!
All was revealed fairly quickly though when I found an override switch connected to this fluoro - it had been set to "movement detector" mode, and what should be sitting right there next to the detector but a good sized, very pretty native gecko of a species I hadn't seen previously. He was about 6-7 inches long, had very pretty pink skin with a dark "diamond" pattern on his back. I found the image below online, though the one we saw seemed much prettier (and much pinker) than the one in the image!
Now the really ironic thing about this is that my current vocation I am involved with alarm systems and the monitoring of same, and I of all people know that up to 90% of night time "false alarm" activations of movement detectors are caused by geckos! The usual culprits are those small Asian geckos you get hiding around your home, not bigger handsome chaps like we saw here.