A bit of winter sun
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:14 pm
I was lucky enough to be taken to Lanzarotte last week by my lovely girlfriend ( I am worth it ) I expected the heptofauna to be relatively easy to find, as I have experienced on some of the other Canary Islands.. However this was not the case..
The weather was a lovely 22 degrees, much nicer than the chilly 9 degrees at home, as I set off to find suitable habitat.. I was lucky enough to be staying well away from the tourist areas, so undisturbed habit was quite easy to find.
I had brief sightings of gallotia atlantica, however they were very wary, a complete contrast to the boisterous and very approachable gallotia galloti I have seen in Tenerife or dugesii in Madeira. I kept at it, finding lots of scolopendra, which to be honest make me run away like a girl... and finally managed to get close to some as the day cooled.
Each night I studied the walls and trees on route back to our hotel, hoping to see Tarentola angustimentalis, with no luck..
I decided to visit some other habitat further round the coast, and after convincing my girlfriend to leave the pool and take a lovely romantic walk with me along the coastline, finally found a small area with a very large population of Tarentola angustimentalis.. she was not overly impressed with the little brown lizards, and could not understand my excitment.. still I cant get excited about horses
I did not try for Chalcides simonyi as I had pushed my luck enough I think a trip to Fuertaventura is called for...
The weather was a lovely 22 degrees, much nicer than the chilly 9 degrees at home, as I set off to find suitable habitat.. I was lucky enough to be staying well away from the tourist areas, so undisturbed habit was quite easy to find.
I had brief sightings of gallotia atlantica, however they were very wary, a complete contrast to the boisterous and very approachable gallotia galloti I have seen in Tenerife or dugesii in Madeira. I kept at it, finding lots of scolopendra, which to be honest make me run away like a girl... and finally managed to get close to some as the day cooled.
Each night I studied the walls and trees on route back to our hotel, hoping to see Tarentola angustimentalis, with no luck..
I decided to visit some other habitat further round the coast, and after convincing my girlfriend to leave the pool and take a lovely romantic walk with me along the coastline, finally found a small area with a very large population of Tarentola angustimentalis.. she was not overly impressed with the little brown lizards, and could not understand my excitment.. still I cant get excited about horses
I did not try for Chalcides simonyi as I had pushed my luck enough I think a trip to Fuertaventura is called for...