This was a long and arduous trip, with only one live snake being found, lack of sleep, and screaming toddlers; but the kids had fun, saw some cool herps, and overall, it was a success.
Here I am with the only snake of the trip, and nice looking Great basin Gopher snake,
Here I am with the snake and Crew(minus their dad, he's playing photographer). From Left to right it's Anthony, Alyssa, Myself, Caleb, Alexis, and Wendel!(the snake was getting a bit aggressive, hence my hilarious facial expression!)
We Found a Desert horned lizard on our way to look for chucks and collards, here are several shots of it and the kids holding it,
Here's the first collard lizard, a nice adult male,
Kids waiting for us to catch stuff
We finally caught some chucks
Didn't see any of these this trip,
We headed to the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest; it was cool, but not worth the $5(only one room). Pics of us being bored,
The next morning we found a cool spider(trap door?) near our camp,
We also found a coastal horned lizard(these guys always squirt blood on my shirt!)
Noosed a nice desert iguana,
Kids being kids,
Here's a picture of Seth(dad to the four younger kids)
Seth's lifer desert night lizard,
Caleb helped me catch a nice male desert spiny lizard
Even baby chucks can bite hard!
Some more chucks
Wendel's going to finish the post with his "Iron Man" pose!
Thanks for looking,
-Chris
High desert trip...with kids
Moderator: Scott Waters
Re: High desert trip...with kids
Those high desert gophers are some of the best looking around. The spider is probably a Kukulcania species.