From Climbing to Herps

On 4th of July weekend, my family decided to take a day trip to Pinnacles National Monument so that my brother and I could do some climbing. In order to find the climbs, we had to do quite a bit of hiking and scrambling around this beautiful landscape and this caused us to stumble upon some cool herps.

I was incredibly excited when we found 4 snakes on this trip!!! Unfortunately they were all the same specie and they were just common garter snakes but still some awesome finds.

3 of them were seen swimming in a reservoir near the climbing

This photo actually shows two snakes. One is very young and small near the right side of the photo

Along with the snakes, we discovered many lizards including this whiptail: