This years summer vacation
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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.
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Gettysburg is fantastic. Enjoy!
And again, take Route 40 if you can, though 30’s nice as well and will take you past the Flight 93 monument.
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