USA trip I Herping Texas and the 26th IHS

USA trip I Herping Texas and the 26th IHS (International Herpetological Symposium) meeting 2002

I planned this trip because I was invited as a guest speaker at the 26th IHS (International Herpetological Symposium) anniversary in Saint Louis Missouri . The IHS was hold on the 18-21th of July and had a wide variety of speakers from different countries with many different and interesting subjects. At this symposium I met many new people and friends.

The two weeks before the HIS I stayed at John Hollister’s place and he drove me around Texas and some other states on field herping. Unfortunately was the weather to hot, to dry and the air pressure to high to find many herps but I have seen many mammals that I also like.

I like to thank everybody that gave me a great time on this trip.

These pictures were taken out of the airplane on the way to the USA and shows a part of Iceland.

Driving almost 2000 miles true Texas, from Albane true the Trans-Pecos region true Del Rio to the Mexican border.

One leg in the USA the other in Mexico

I also visited Cris & Liz Reimann from the Gila-Ranch were I have seen a gorgous collection of various Gilamonsters and Beaded Lizards from all colours and sizes and many nice snakes like these beautifull Albino Crotalus viridis. Cris also let me play with his AK-47 riffle and I found out that shooting a riffle is not as easy as it looks :-)

These are the pictures of some of the animals we found the guy in the pink t-shirt is Jason Penny. The pictures from the Diamond Back Rattlesnake are all the same snake but it is a nice specimen.

We travelled in the direction to the IHS true Oklahoma were we found this turtle on the road.

Saint Louis, Missouri with his famous arch over along the Missisipie river. This was our final destination for the IHS meeting.

The 26th IHS meeting Banquet with as banquet speaker Bill Lamar author of the book Venomous Reptiles of Latin America.

We also visited the ST.Louis zoo which has a great Herpentarium build in a old style. The have a wide variety of spectaculair reptiles in gorgous setups. I like to thank Peter Taylor the Zoological manager of the Herpentarium for his time to show me and Gus Dering (Tzabcan) around the Herpentarium and behind the scenes. The picture of the 3 guys in the left bottom corner are Gus, Terry and Jack.

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