Wish you could have been there Fred....someday we'll hook up. I never realized just how powerful monsoons can be until I nearly got my conversion van stuck in a supposedly "dry wash"...yeah right, it was dry on the way up the mountain and on the way back out, a nice terrential river! Thankfully, I navigated my van around and found a dirt road that wasn't too flooded to get out; what an adventure! On that same outing, with my wife and kids in the van, we nearly drove off a 2000 foot ledge when I tried to swerve out of the way of a tiger rattlesnake only to nearly drive off the steepest ledge on the mountain; all for the sake of saving rattlesnakes! I got some nice pics of the snake before I safely returned it to the other side of the ledge. At that point, my wife and daughters pretty much had enough excitement for one day. The things we do


>>Rob,
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>>Wish I could have been there too hear it. Tucson truly is a *magical place*, especially around the "monsoon season." I know what you mean about the hordes of tarantulas, I myself have seen literally hundreds of WHIP SCORPIONS running across and down the road in Borrego Desert out here in Calif. BUT..unlike you, I was not brave enough to lay down and let them run all over me. Not me..no way!!!
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>>You ever see the FACE on those things? No way Id let them run all over me..uh-huh..no way...
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>>Kudos to you for disseminating so much good info on Drymarchon, and you are right, donating Couperi to HONEST and forward thinking institutions who would actively promote the increasded protection of both this snake and its habitat is an excellent thing.
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>>thanks for your hard work,
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>>Appreciatively,
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>>Fredrick Albury
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

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