Thursday, September 03, 2009

Skink Tales

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When your adolescent children request a trip into the woods to look for reptiles, it's hard to refuse. Remembering youth, searching for the Five-Lined Skink on the Torrance Barrens.

3 comments:

Rupert said...

cool! they're slippery suckers! Five Lined Skink is a great name.

rob-d said...

i feared for the
captive when the
hatchet came into
view but the boys
have moved on --
and so too has
mr. five line

ain't nature grand!

Robert Croma said...

Fabulous! A glorious moment beautifully captured.

When I was a boy the hunt was for slow worms. A gorgeous little reptile I haven't seen for years.