I just came back from a family holiday in Galicia. The great thing about visiting a place you’ve never been to before, especially one with so many endemic species like Spain, is that everything you see is new. This was the case for me this time so I didn’t really bother to do any serious herping and just had a look around at the places we visited. The weather wasn’t great (it rained for 5 out of 7 days) and in total I had about 4-5 hours of “herping” for the whole week but I was lucky enough to see five species new to me and one that I’ve only seen once last year in Cantabria. I’ll post a few photos all of which (except two which you'll notice) are in-situ. I'm trying to catch as little as possible.
First, the garden of the house in which we were staying had some cool lizards and insects.
Than the beach at which we went had two lizard species and one snake species. Not too bad for a beach!
Finally, we went for a walk along a river not far away where there were some tiny recently metamorphosed frogs and the fifth stone I turned had a little gem I was really hoping to find.
All and all I’m pretty happy with how the holiday turned out and I can't wait to go back to Spain.