Southern Grass Skink

Skinks are incredibly hard to ID with any certainty, especially when you are 4 feet above them, can’t view the profile, and you don’t have a long enough lens – and they move at the speed of light if you get too close.
 
We think this is a southern grass skink, but it is not a garden skink.
 
Garden skinks lay eggs – this particular species gives birth to live young.
 
The Grass Skink, Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii, is a medium sized skink, with a ground colour varying from olive to dark brown. It has a dark stripe down the back and a pale stripe a scale wide running from behind the ear to the tail on scale row 4. Mottling is usually present on the sides, often with white spots. It has a snout vent length of up to 65 mm.