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Photo sessions, Box Turtles and creepy narco-effigies. The long and winding road to Alamos, pool-side frogs and some late night road cruising.

Jockey's Cap Lily, Tigridia pavonia, roadside. Thanks to The Woofess for identifying this one!		Banded Rock Rattler Crotalus lepidus klauberi
blends right in with the rock....
	Kris wrangles one of the big Mexican Blacktails.	Mexican Blacktailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus nigrescens)
	The second Blackie. Not as colorful, but that gold color on the dorsum was simply outstanding.
			Saddled Cat-Eyed Snake (Leptodeira splendida ephippiata)
		Where the Rosy (Tarahumara) Salamander was found the previous night.	Locality for the second Blacktailed Rattler.
An amazing shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe, near Los Pilares.		Locality for the other Blacktail, nearly to Maycoba.
Los Pilares area.	The effigy of narco-creepiness.		Narco dummy at top-left. CJ takes a shot.
Spotted Box Turtle (Terrapene nelsoni nelsoni). Perhaps my best turtle-crossing-the-road event ever.
			Land of Terrapene nelsoni.
	Yecora from the balcony of the Hotel King.	Yecora from up the hill.
View of the Sierra Madre.		Beautiful.	Ginormous DOR Masticophis bilineatus.
	Looking back up the road towards the Sierra Madre.	A hefty Sinaloan Toad, Bufo mazatlanensis	DOR Rhinocheilus lecontei antonii
The most numerous amphibian of our trip, the Marbled Toad (Ollotis marmoreus)		aaaaaaah, Smilisca baudinii, and right by our pool! Life is good.	Mexican Treefrog, Smilisca baudinii. Poolside.
Look, it's Jabba the Hut! The biggest Anaxyrus punctatus I've ever seen.	Another mazatlanensis.	A Southern Emerald Moth (Synchlora frondaria), Geometridae	Yellow-Bellied Leaf-Toed Gecko, Phyllodactylus homolepidurus.
		Hemidactylus sp.	A sturdy Ollotis mazatlanensis.
A Clear-Banded Coral Snake (Micrurus distans distans). CJ spotted this right outside the gate of Rancho Acosta.	DOR Boa constrictor imperator on the Navajoa Road.	The diagnostic black-rimmed oculars of Bufo mazatlanensis.

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