Valley of Fire Lizard Trip July 08

After looking around Logandale, Nevada most of the morning we finally catch a Desert Iguana. We saw a lot but were unable to catch many. This was one of our first attempts at video taping and talking to the camera like a documentary. It was painful.



Most of the time we don't get very good footage of actually catching a lizard. The fact is most of the time we spend more time chasing lizards around and goofing off more than catching them. This time we just about had the footage we were hoping to get: a spectacular capture (or someone getting bit by a snake). Matt made the diving catch while the camera was on and you can just about see the whole thing. After Matt catches the lizard, it gets away when Neil sees a DI (desert iguana). As amateur filmographers we give ourselves a B+ on Matt's diving catch behind Neil and an A- on the lizard jumping out of his hand and running into a hole.Unstaged, without overhead camera angles and a lighting crew, what do you expect.



At dusk and a couple of hours after a rain we went out in the foothills near Beaver Dam on the Utah/Nevada border. The conditions were great. This video shows how excited Neil gets when he finds a lizard that is not very easy to find. After filming Neil and I spent an hour and a half trying to dig the lizard out of a very rocky hole. While we were digging Drew and Matt caught 2 horny toads, a desert banded gecko, and a sagebrush lizard. The lizard Neil and I were chasing got away while both Neil and I got bit several times each by the ants from the nearby ant pile.



This video shows one the horny toads Drew and Matt found while Neil and I were digging. They were just tiny. We will get better at filming. Hopefully.