Something different

[Buck Rogers]

Here's something a little different I wanted to share with you all. We went for a herping expedition in the Magaliesburg area which lies in the North West of Gauteng in South Africa, a place called Mount Grace. They have quite a few puff adders (Bitis arientas) and we went through to give the guy who's the property/estate manager a crash course on what to do if he encounters a venomous snake.

After 4 hours on a cold windy morning we came accross this big beautiful female under a larger rock. There is no greater reward as I have been looking for puffies to photograph for quite some time now.

[SludgeMunkey]

Magnificent!

It has been a while since I have come across a venomous snake in the field, but I still get the rush thinking about it.

[Buck Rogers]

It has been 11 years since I have seen a puff adder in the wild and for over a year now I have made it my active goal to find one so you can imagine my excitement when we found it. And its always better to find a large specimen - she measured close to a meter.

On this trip we also found various scorpions, geckos, lizards and an amazing rana species which was unidentified - I was in no mood to play around in the water to catch it

Strangely enough no clawed frogs which I was expecting to find quite few, next time we go out there I'll try get more amphib photos for you all.

[SludgeMunkey]

I do not think there is anything more satisfying than actually finding what you are looking for on a field trip.

[Kurt]

When you're in (eastern) Massachusetts, you're just happy to find anything. LOL Cool find on the puff adder, its been a while since I have seen one.

[John]

Wow Darryn, that's some photo. Well done and well done for finding your target species.

When you're in (eastern) Massachusetts, you're just happy to find anything.

You need to field herp with me.

[Kurt]

I look forward to it.

[Tom Highum]

How about a section of the forum dedicated to field herping? John

[John]

Very few people here do it - I don't think we'd see many posts.

[Kurt]

Unless you count reptiles shows as herping. LOL

[into]

Unless you count reptiles shows as herping. LOL

I do bedroom herping when one of the frogs get out

[Kurt]

Hey, what you do in the privacy of your bedroom is your own business. I don't judge.

[Tom Highum]

Haha Kurt. Well ok i guess thats a no... for now.