from the Acambaro/Guanajuato,Mexico area.

I lived about 45 minutes from there, a little town San Miguel de Allende. Spent 4 years there with lots of herping/rock hounding from around my town to Celaya, Guanajuato, Queretaro as far south as San Luis Potosi for fire agates and up to Monterrey for Topaz. Besides gem stones I was also on the lookout for reptiles. In 4 years of flipping rocks, tin and old decaying cactus I only found 1 pygmy rattler at the old silver mines at Pozos.

I come back here and see more snakes from those areas than I ever could find. Spoke to some campasinos and mostly they all agreed the only good snake is a dead snake.

That being said, there was a town about 1 1/2 hours north, name slips my mind getting old sucks, that you could always find camposinos selling animals alongside the road. Harris hawks, numerous owls, coatis all sorts of stuff. We spoke to some of them and told them we were interested in snakes could they catch us some. As agreed we went back a week later. Oh yea! Bunches of snakes, all dead, skinned and stretched out on branches. We could not get them to comprehend we wanted them alive, they just couldn't fathom the idea why someone would want live snakes.

Did find lots of high quality gems though.
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