A Thurgoona man says he “had the cobwebs blown out of him” when he discovered a 5-foot long goanna in his backyard. “I saw movement as I came out of the shed and I had a look and thought, bloody hell what is this thing? When I recovered from the shock I went inside and got a camera.” Eric Holland had been working in his shed in New South Wales, when he saw the giant lizard darting across his property.
“I couldn’t have got a bigger shock if a Martian had landed,” Holland told 2UE. Lace monitors or lace goannas can grow up to 6-feet long, a NSW environmental official said. A goanna is any of several Australian monitor lizards of the genus Varanus, as well as certain species from Southeast Asia.
