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- January 12th, 2012, 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18111
Re: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
Haha, I'm saving for a camera but funds continuously disappear and there is a baby on the way..
- January 12th, 2012, 9:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
With my pregnant wife, I'll be lucky if I can get to Hainan this year. ;) Looks like a mostly local 12 months for me, but I'll make the most of it. I also had someone ask me to go up to Shandong for some professional fights. I'd get paid, but I'm nowhere near professional level and need my arms and ...
- January 12th, 2012, 2:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009 REDUX
- Replies: 93
- Views: 21105
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009
Thank you! At the time I had no idea what species were found here and I hadn't found this forum yet, so I was hesitant to get too close. Also, my camera was only 3X zoom. :P Check out my new 2011 post and Kevin's Guilin post for more shots of the area and heaps more herps. They should both still be ...
- January 11th, 2012, 5:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18111
Re: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
Sh!t, I'll be almost a year without sex (wife pregnant) and no king cobras! :cry: Amazing tales, withalligators. Finding a king in the wilderness will always be my dream encounter. They have been found near me, I just need at least one companion and about three to five days to mount an expedition fo...
- January 10th, 2012, 7:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #21: Wallace's Flying Frog
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5615
Re: Borneo Dispatches #21: Wallace's Flying Frog
Nice find, Hans! Now I am sure that a mystery frog I found many years ago in a kindergarten surrounded by mountains, that have since been wiped out by evil mountaintop removal mining, is in the same genus. Not sure if mine could fly (don't think that species ranges into my area, though Draco does), ...
- January 8th, 2012, 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18111
Re: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
I just may take you up on that as well, Hans.
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The end of this article may explain your dried snake, Kevin.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/snakes-sl ... 6238981168
The end of this article may explain your dried snake, Kevin.
- January 8th, 2012, 8:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18111
Re: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
I'll try to get to John before he leaves for Malaysia/Thailand on Thursday. 77 snakes in overpopulated Hongkong versus 12 or something in the middle of nowhere out here is ridiculous, especially since there are at least 97 species here. Dan has invited me down there, so I'll have to take up his offe...
- January 7th, 2012, 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18111
Re: China post #39 - Hong Kong. Final China post
Wouw, Kevin, you were sure successful down there. I could only see about half of the photos, but those conduits are every bit as impressive as you said and more than I imagined. So, Hongkong must be your best herping destination so far?? Are you sure that the gekkoes in my neighbourhood are Hemidact...
- January 7th, 2012, 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
That is all that counts. In some ways I am blessed, definitely.. I'm still young, so I have time to work out the kinks in my life. I finally got around to creating a record of all lizard species in South China and here are the ones I've found so far: Eumeces chinensis Eumeces elegans Hemidactylus fr...
- January 5th, 2012, 8:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
I'm glad we are of the same mind in regards to posting. I'm living a day, but the reality is that I have no heating in my apartment and it's hovering just above zero degrees, I don't have a car and a motorcycle, while fun, can be a pain in the arse, I struggle to save money, and China is doing a fin...
- January 5th, 2012, 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009 REDUX
- Replies: 93
- Views: 21105
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009
Haha, no. Nowhere near the panda. That's way West. China is huge. I prefer ferocious animals, anyways.
- January 5th, 2012, 7:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
Thanks, mate.
- January 4th, 2012, 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009 REDUX
- Replies: 93
- Views: 21105
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2005-2009
I remember this post now. Much like the last comment - the iced over bamboo shots are really amazing! (Again) And I was obviously wrong about the snake in the bucket - which I think we went over while I was there - it is Amphiesma stolata, not Xenochrophis Ah! I forgot to change the caption (if the...
- January 4th, 2012, 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12485
Re: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
I'm looking at your Flickr account photos right now on John's computer.
Nice Xenochrophis and variety of frogs! It's not nearly as bad-looking there as I imagined!
Nice Xenochrophis and variety of frogs! It's not nearly as bad-looking there as I imagined!
- January 4th, 2012, 9:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
Thank you and you're welcome.Warren wrote:Nice work Maarten! Thanks for posting.
- January 4th, 2012, 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
See my first China post for the other herps. Can't find the direct links on Photobucket for some reason. Here is the link: http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4352 Here is the complete snake list: *Amphiesma craspedogaster *Amphiesma optata *Amphiesma stolata *Cyclophiops maj...
- January 4th, 2012, 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
Thank you! Have I mentioned.. "Damn that rock!!!"???Kevin Messenger wrote:wow, dude, some of those scenery shots in the 2nd post were amazing! gorgeous shots. Especially that one shot with the rock in it!! Granted it would be better without the rock, but still, a really AWESOME shot. Love it
- January 4th, 2012, 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
I really LOVE that first shot, but you should post some of the DORs you found and emailed - like the Sinomicrurus, Xenochrophis, Macropisthodon, Oligodon - you've had some cool DORs. Oh, and the "Bufo melanostictus" - though the photo is of scenery, I think the photo you are thinking of i...
- January 4th, 2012, 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Re: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
My journey was far from over, though. I live here! http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e166/MaartenSFS/China%202011/P1010044.jpg According to John I look like a "F*cking ninja"! http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e166/MaartenSFS/China%202011/P1000986.jpg Dinodon flavozonatum More images of &q...
- January 4th, 2012, 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8075
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China 2011
For my massive 2005-2009 Report see the link: http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4352 Well, as some of you know, I am a self-confessed hoarder (of photos, nothing else!). In truth I haven't posted any of these yet because I wasn't able to find much this year. I mean, I found...
- January 3rd, 2012, 7:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12485
Re: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
Haha, that's kind of the point. Just don't tell them that.
- January 3rd, 2012, 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Asia year in review
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6361
Re: Asia year in review
Wouw, that's very impressive for daytime flipping. I would say that my flipping was futile because there aren't as many snakes, but I have seen so many DORs that this simply isn't the case. There isn't much left in the city itself, though, after all the recent urbanisation. I'm also in the subtropic...
- January 3rd, 2012, 4:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12485
Re: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
Well, my book wasn't going to sell anyways, as it spanned many genres. If I ever try my hand at fiction again I will develop another story where different superpowers have colonised their own planets after Earth is destroyed. The story would focus on the planet China colonised and leaders live in la...
- January 2nd, 2012, 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12485
Re: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
I wonder if Flickr is blocked or something because you can attach location information to the photo. That's why the GPS on my camera doesn't work in China. Quite annoying.. Anyways, I'm glad you weren't dehydrated in Danshui, but... I think it would be safe to prematurely diagnose you with a Pepsi a...
- January 2nd, 2012, 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
Haha, no. I choose it for watching a large array of free television programmes and uploading my own videos (which with my new camera aren't blurry anymore). I was always able to access Wikipedia content through reference.com. Losing Facebook is of little import. Also, Flickr tends to have problems h...
- January 2nd, 2012, 8:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Asia year in review
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6361
Re: Asia year in review
I'm really surprised that you found that much during the day by flipping. I flip like mad too and have only found one snake under a rock centuries ago. Is there a particular season that they hang out under things? The most I've seen here are DORs, which means that I need to road cruise a lot more. I...
- January 2nd, 2012, 10:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
Ah, thank you for that definition. That explains why as soon as the weather is warm for even a day I see reptiles out and about. Wikipedia is strangely the only thing not blocked.. I'd trade it for Youtube..
- January 2nd, 2012, 10:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #20: Huge Mangrove Snake on New Year's Eve
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7067
Re: Borneo Dispatches #20: Huge Mangrove Snake on New Year's
Thank you, Hans. So far no one has hoped one way or the other, but many have speculated using wives tale hogwash. Her friends thinks she needs a girl and my friends say I need a boy for martial arts and herping. Both are right so I suppose we need one of each, to be fair. ;) @DavidG: Slayertown. It ...
- January 2nd, 2012, 2:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #20: Huge Mangrove Snake on New Year's Eve
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7067
Re: Borneo Dispatches #20: Huge Mangrove Snake on New Year's
Nice find! It's been too cold here for just over a month now and won't be good enough to herp until March or so (depending on how bad the monsoons are this year). Subtropics vs Tropics.. My wife is expecting. And not just me arriving home this evening after martial arts class. I look forward to havi...
- January 2nd, 2012, 2:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Asia year in review
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6361
Re: Asia year in review
That's quite a list there. Either you are more dedicated than I or Thailand is great for herps (probably both). I haven't found as much up here in South China. Did you find most of these during the day? Are you always out there alone? You mentioned before that you are using an FZ series Panasonic ca...
- January 2nd, 2012, 2:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
What's brumation?
I have seen too many fatal accidents in China to forego safety. One close call per week on average. China must be the worst country in the world to drive in. (Especially the smaller cities where any sort of vehicle is allowed on the road).
I have seen too many fatal accidents in China to forego safety. One close call per week on average. China must be the worst country in the world to drive in. (Especially the smaller cities where any sort of vehicle is allowed on the road).
- January 1st, 2012, 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
Well, since July, but the weather got too cold the last week of November (also had one month of unseasonally cold weather in September/October - the best herping month according to farmers) and no, I didn't roadcruise a lot because it's just me and by the time I stop, park, take off my motorcycle he...
- January 1st, 2012, 7:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12139
Re: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
Oath. Seafood in California was amazing and cheap. And I don't like seafood??
- December 31st, 2011, 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
Compensating??DavidG wrote: , What do you call a guy who goes into a bar and buys everyone a drink?
- December 31st, 2011, 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plungi
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8889
Re: Borneo Dispatches #19: Bornean Miscellany, Part 2 - Plun
Even though people rarely photograph the "other things" in the forest, without them it just wouldn't be a complete experience. And, unless the people viewing your photos were there, you need these to give them a glimpse of what it was really like; an attack on all senses. Thanks for sharin...
- December 31st, 2011, 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12139
Re: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
You know, Hans, before I found the FHF I couldn't even find out what species were in my range or ID them. Now, with a new Chinese catalogue of life and Kevin's hard work (especially the photos on Flickr help a lot with IDing) and experience rubbing off on me this year I am starting to get a picture ...
- December 31st, 2011, 7:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12485
Re: China post #38 - Danshui, Guangdong Province
Wouw, I can see why you didn't mention Danshui much when we texted. You must have started hallucinating in your dehydrated state and wondering when Dan would ever return. =P Your viper was also the biggest lost opportunity since I've been back in Guilin. Vipers are cool. Green snakes are cool. Green...
- December 31st, 2011, 7:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12139
Re: China post #37 - Guilin, Guangxi Province
I'm glad you finally got this up, Kevin. It was a real pleasure hosting you for five days and I learned a lot. No one else has visited me in China before - not even my family. That has been the best time I've had since I've been back. Remember that the hut man said that he'd seen a four-legged snake...
- December 7th, 2011, 6:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10656
Re: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
But Kansas doesn't have ......an exotic culture.. *cry* What? If you don't find Americans as a whole and Kansans in particular the least bit exotic, then I suppose nobody can help you :-) When you say you didn't find anything for the last three years, Hans, did you mean on the mainland? I meant &qu...
- December 6th, 2011, 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10656
Re: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
But Kansas doesn't have pointy mountains, rainforest, waterfalls at every turn, amazing food, or an exotic culture.. *cry* When you say you didn't find anything for the last three years, Hans, did you mean on the mainland? Because I have found just a handful of living snakes in the last five months ...
- December 6th, 2011, 2:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10656
Re: China post #36, Beijing and the return to Shennongjia
As Kevin says, I've been having problems with Flickr. After using this VPN "http://tenacy.hpc.tw/public" I can log onto Flickr and see about 80% of the photos (Sorry, I was premature in telling you that I could see all of them). What I like about this VPN is that you don't have to install ...
- September 2nd, 2011, 9:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gunung Mulu National park; Sarawak
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3064
Re: Gunung Mulu National park; Sarawak
No worries. I know you'll be back in Vietnam soon enough anyways. If you ever make it up to my area I can show you some proper caving as well. I still have five or six caves to explore than no man has ever entered.
- August 31st, 2011, 5:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gunung Mulu National park; Sarawak
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3064
Re: Gunung Mulu National park; Sarawak
Minor correction; Deer Cave was the largest cave passage in the world until 2009, when a mate of mine took part in a surveying expedition to a new cave discovered in central Vietnam. It is so large that an entire block of New York City can fit into it without touching any of the sides.
- August 29th, 2011, 1:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mount Kinabalu Part 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1928
Re: Mount Kinabalu Part 2
Nice Megophrys!
- August 29th, 2011, 1:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Point and Shoot suggestions solicited. . .
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3408
Re: Point and Shoot suggestions solicited. . .
I second a vote for the Panasonic DMC Lumix Zs7. I will be posting photos of the almost two months I have been back in China here shortly, but for image quality and an impressive zoom and macro I have never seen a better P&S. The HD video is also very clear and sometimes the only way to record a...
- August 29th, 2011, 1:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping with Camcorder
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2643
Re: Herping with Camcorder
Or possibly using a memory card with a speed below Class 6? I do not know if camcorders also use these, but I have found this to be the case with normal cameras that can shoot in HD.
- August 11th, 2011, 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gunung Leuser: Sumatra
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10628
Re: Gunung Leuser: Sumatra
And here I was thinking that you'd pack up and return home after Vietnam. Great finds. I especially love the shot of that jungle stream. If anyone does not find that inviting they must not be crazy enough for real herping. In both Vietnam and Sumatra, during what hours did you find the most?
- August 7th, 2011, 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: South China Expeditions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3790
Re: South China Expeditions
Beijing and Shanghai are some of the worst places in the country for social interaction. Here in the South people are laid back, foreigners are rare outside the tourist hotspots, and saying "Ni hao" will impress a crowd. I speak Mandarin, so search for English-speakers is of no concern to ...
- August 7th, 2011, 7:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NT trip, Australia (DUW)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1275
Re: NT trip, Australia (DUW)
O, I foolishly assumed you lived in the south and were traveling up north. How is the herping in Singapore? I'll probably make it there at some point in my life, but not on my cheap Chinese salary at the moment.
- August 7th, 2011, 5:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NT trip, Australia (DUW)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1275
Re: NT trip, Australia (DUW)
Nou! Dan voel ik me echt welkom! Before I get over there, though, keep it up with the photos.