A few shots from the honeymoon

[Crotalus]

First we took off to B.C.
Crossed these little hills twice...The Rocky Mountains

Later we spend a few days in Alberta/Saskatchewan and found some rattlesnakes on the road

1.0 Crotalus viridis

We celebrated Sheris 30 birthday hanging out with this big guy

Sheri and mr. Rattler

This garter, Thamnophis radix, felt safe at Sheris shoe

We were lucky to see newborn viridis babies, ca 10-15

And managed to find alot of adults in the dens

Last day heading back we got this bonus, Coluber contrictor flaviventris

A great honeymoon to say the least!

/Lelle

 

[Sheri]

I haven't finished organizing and resizing the snake and Lelle shots yet... but here are some spiders, at least.

Lactrodectus hesperus

Wolf spider from BC - munching on what appears to be another wolf spider that had a honeymoon not quite as good as ours;

I didn't even notice the second spider until after I got home and downloaded the pictures... so much for my incredible skills of observation.

and a really stunning orbweaver... hard to show the size of the web, but I think it was the biggest I have seen in North America;

I think I'd appreciate the rockies more if we could have transported through them. Man, what a killer drive that was. Looking at the map, Lelle was like; "I don't think it'll take more than a few hours to get over them."

Yeah, right. 3 AM after 22 hours of driving, we stopped at the only hotel within an hour's drive... of course, it was way overpriced and we were there all of 6 hours or so before facing another 5 hours of mountain driving.

Nothing like when we crossed in Colorado - I mean... we're talking undivided highway, one lane on each side with construction everywhere, semis with a deathwish *and* on the last weekend in August. Brilliant. LMAO.

On the bright side, we saw our first "falling people" traffic sign which we have since verified as not a joke.

 

[GQ.]

Congratulations, on the marriage and on finding all those wonderful rattlesnakes. It looks like it was a great trip. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Vys]

Seems way better than gondols in Venezia

 

[tarcan]

Pictures are great guys, seems like you had a lot of fun! Nothing better then herping trips for a honeymoon!

Martin

 

[Anthony]

Congratulations to you both, great pictures and fine memories I hope.