As most of you are aware, I love finding snakes, and they have been the focus of almost all of my recent posts. So for this post I decided I'd choose some different subjects for those of you who are sick of seeing pictures of snakes or those of you who are ophidiophobic (fear snakes). …
If I had my dream job I'd be at national parks every day, unfortunately our visits are limited to the weekends and recently our weekends have all been taken up by work or things we didn't have time for in the week. It seemed like forever since we'd been to a wild area and I …
One of the best things about being in Phang Nga province in Thailand, apart from the beautiful beaches, is the amount of national parks and wild areas to explore. Out of all of these, Sri Phang-Nga National Park was absolutely one of my favourite places to visit, and here's why: The amazing thing about this …
Carly and I recently spent a few weeks in the UK and upon our return we were too busy to go out and about looking for wildlife. When we finally had a free saturday we woke up to the sound of the wind howling past our windows. All day the weather was terrible and the …
A friend of ours, Linnea, had been asking if she could accompany us on one of our herping trips and what better excuse for us to check out our favourite herping spot again (as if we needed an excuse!) Linnea wanted to see some snakes and as we headed up the trail I assured her …
Our new herping spot is proving to be incredibly diverse and every time we visit it we discover something new. The snakes have definitely been the highlight for me and so far we've seen 4 new species. Here are some of my favourite snake pictures. This vibrant Red-necked Keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus) This lovely White-spotted Slug-eating …
After last saturdays success we decided to head to our new spot again this weekend to see what suprises it had in store for us this time. Within five minutes we'd spotted our first snake.......once again it was a red-necked keelback. We suspect it was the same one that we spotted first last time as …
I don't get to go to national parks to look for snakes as often as I'd like so I'm always on the look out for good areas to go out herping (looking for reptiles and amphibians) and the other day I spotted one. It was an abandoned path through a forest which was lined with …
If i'm bored at night i'll put on my wellies/ galloshes and go out exploring my local neighbhourhood, trudging through rice paddies, walking through grassy fields or searching along the roads looking for wildlife. Something I see most nights are frogs, and a few of them have become very familiar to me and their recognizable small hopping …
Anyone who has lived in, visited or even just passed through Southeast Asia will have seen at least one gecko during their stay. At night, geckos will scuttle across walls and roofs near lights taking advantage of the bounty of flying insects that the lights attract. There are more than 70 species of gecko in Thailand …
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