Fat-bellied Emerald (6/8)

Odonata: Hemicorduliidae

Hemicordulia continentalis  

I was walking along a mangrove boardwalk at Golden Beach Caloundra talking on my mobile to Vik Dunis about some new jumping spiders I had just found. I stopped to look at a photo on my camera screen to describe one of them and as I looked up I found myself looking directly at a Fat-bellied Emerald Dragonfly perched a few centimetres from my nose.

I hung up on Vik, took three photos with my macro lens, the dragonfly flew away, and I rang Vik back all in about one minute.