Blue Tongues are about 12/14 inches long with a rather robust body Shirley. @Kate Ellery I have often found Blue Tongues in my backyard. One of my dogs mauled one a few years back. Thankfully it survived and slithered next door.
Sleepy’s are flattish .Louise they would be as round as a small tomato sauce bottle and weigh quite a bit I’d say at a guess up to 2 pounds in weight. ( in your measurements )
Interesting video about them on HERE You need to scroll down a bit to the video https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-16/life-death-and-grief-of-the-sleepy-lizard/8442252?nw=0
awe read how devoted those lizzards are to each other. i almost cried.. He even observed grieving behaviour in the reptiles when a member of a pair is killed. "In one case a female got her head caught in some chicken wire," he said. She pushed her head though and couldn't pull it back out again. The male hung around for two days. "He'd come and revisit her every half hour or so: he'd be nudging her, he'd be tongue flicking, it was as if he was saying, 'What's wrong? Let's carry on like we were before.' "Everyone tells us that lizards don't grieve, because they're not humans. But, they're doing what we think is analogous to grief. "It certainly demonstrates the strength of the pair bond: that it persists beyond death." I almost cried!!
I seen it with my own eyes @Louise Miller when travelling out to the hall we used to use for dancing out in the bush we’d see a dead sleepy o the road ,with another live one sitting by its side , we’ve even stopped and taken the dead one off the road so the live one doesn’t get killed as well ....but the surviving one will often die from loosing its mate
I won’t be here tomorrow it’s Ron’s birthday so we are going out for lunch with Leonie I’d rather have lunch out than have a heavy evening meal ...same with Ron we only like something light for a evening meal