Coolatai is my home town. It is north of Warialda, on the Western side of the Great Dividing Range, and is a friendly little village with the best light in Australia. It is beside the Ottley Creek in the Gwydir Shire and the soils vary between rich loams, blacksoil and sand. The population is about 130 people and one herpetologist. I moved to Coolatai because of its position at the confluence of several biogeographic zones, which endows the area with a rich mixture of fauna and flora usually more common in the north, south, east and west.