Havasupai

We took our young men from church down to Havasupai Canyon and spent the week hiking, swimming, and exploring. The place was crawling with whiptails, spinys, and tree lizards. I caught a big whiptail but I seem to have misplaced my camera (at the bottom of Havasu Falls).

These two guys I caught on the same tree. The little tree lizard was trying so hard to bite the spiny. It was funny to watch. I think he has "short man complex".

This is a king snake I caught on our day hike we took Thursday. We went 20 miles to the Colorado River and back in about 7 hours. We sat and had soda from some rafters on the Colorado for about an hour of that.

Somehow I got him to stay on my hand for a picture.

They took a video of him croaking in my hand I will post when I get it.

Fossil Springs Trip 2011

We took all of our scouts into Fossil Springs for a backpacking trip. I saw mostly tree lizards and swarms of bugs. I did find a few frogs but they were shy to the camera. This guy was flirting with a female higher up in the tree. He is missing his tail and it was growing back. It made him look like a little bulldog.

Not sure I was so excited to be this close to this creepy spider, but we saw a bunch of these all up and down the creek.

The water was SOOOO clear. If you look close you can see the fish. This part of the creek was about 6 feet deep.

I was sitting high on the cliff above where the old dam was and this guy jumped up right next to me with a bug in his mouth. I snapped this shot just as he finished the job. You can see the legs sticking out of his mouth if you look close.