This years summer vacation
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Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah
This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley
Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?
Glen canyon dam
And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon
Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.
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Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.
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Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
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Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
The Brad
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@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
@LuFins-Dad said in This years summer vacation:
@Jolly said in This years summer vacation:
Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!
And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.
Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..
Isn't that a dozen rattles on the tail?
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Really nice pics. Please post more!
Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south. -
Really nice pics. Please post more!
Oh, and definitely a rattlesnake. It has a rattle. And that’s the 1st defining feature with your pic. Gopher snakes (aka bull snakes) don’t have rattles on their tails. Their tails taper to a point. I’m more familiar with prairie rattlers. They aren’t as pretty as the ones down south. -
Great photos, Mr. B.
There's nothing like the US for just jaw-dropping canyons and what-not. We went to the Grand Canyon and Sedona a couple of years ago, and I was really just struck dumb by the experience. I'm hoping it's reversible.
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My contact in Calgary got back to me and said that it was a beautiful example of a Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus helleri )
What really impressed him was the perfect condition of his tail for a snake that has undergone twelve sheddings.
Good call blondie.
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So, currently in Grand Island Nebraska.
As I said going fast over the plains. Here there be…basically just cornfields.
Some catch up
The south west deserts are just beyond spectacular. Every turn was a new canyon, a new mesa, colors unbelievable.
But fraught with danger.
Four corners
Joshua trees
Ouray Colorado
Scottsbluff Nebraska.
Tomorrow booked a hotel overlooking the Mississippi in Iowa.
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No sorry. Swinging fast in abit more southerly route across Indiana and ultimately toward Pennsylvania and New York, I’d like to visit the hallowed ground of Gettysburg. And maybe Amish Pennsylvania.
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No sorry. Swinging fast in abit more southerly route across Indiana and ultimately toward Pennsylvania and New York, I’d like to visit the hallowed ground of Gettysburg. And maybe Amish Pennsylvania.
