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well, heres all the pics. ill give some explanation later (im about to go put together a setup for my brand new giant day gecko!)

here we go.

Great pics..Was this a recent trip?I am heading down right after the new year.Ill be staying with My friends down there and We will be giving the keeys some attention...Good Herping,Chip....

the previous was a black racer

brown anole with a forked tail coming from sligt injury to the lower tail

suban treefrog

giant centipede

caught this guy in a yard on plantation key with permission from the property owners. easiest places to find them was in residential areas that were full of trees and plants. this one found on plantation key in a tree, others spotted behind shutters on a house, a couple found on a fence at the dolphin research center on grassy key. heard some other places to find them are big pine key (origin of introduction), little torch key, and big torch key. possibly elsewhere. got one with two parallel rows of spots on its back instead of random pattern. need to look up more about these beauties. definitely the highlight of my trip. they're such beautiful geckos, the people in the areas we found them didnt want us taking them from their yards because they like them as well! but they were gracious enough to allow us to catch them for photos.

first one spotted! right before it was spotted, i looked at the huge tree it was in and said aloud "now if i were a giant day gecko here, i would be in that tree right there."

doh, heres the actual picture

giant everything!!!!

http://www.thewolfweb.com/photos/00366426.jpg

ok, heres the picture

another greenhouse frog

first iguana we caught!

herpers in action climbing a pine tree to snare an iggy

ha, after we caught this guy he just didnt wanna move anymore and was easy to pose for the camera!

the endangered key deer. this is a full sized adult at the size of a large dog.

this guy would have been quite a catch but they are fast and always have an escape route handy!

mangrove water snake caught while road cruising at sunset

heres a larger red male we found the first night while road cruising with the smaller one we found a few days later.

so purdy

me and a small iggy i spotted in a bush

osprey

smells bad

even though these are a protected species and reportedly uncommon in the keys, it was the single species of snake we ran across the most.

another one

between 6 and 7 was the magic hour for us in road cruising. the light rain also helped one night in camp.

crossing the road while road cruising, gotta make the best attempt to stop the car and get that snake!

whip scorpion of the tailless kind

we think this is some sort of shell-less snail. it was found while flipping rocks and at first i thought it was actually a berry that had been sliced in half. what looks like the stem actually looked like a feeding appendage. can anyone help identify this?!

pic

from below you could see what seemed like it was the seeds or core of the "berry", which i believe is actually its inner organs.

sigh

this time with the right pic

gotta love the feral beasties.
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- Happy herping!

KE

I need to hit the keys. Looks like yall had a good time. Cool series of pictures!
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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas