Here's Looking at You

This is not a chuckawalla.  I'll find the shot that I think is of a chuckawalla. This is a desert tortoise. A high desert tortoise. 

Wild Life I Can Catch Up With

If this tortoise could talk, it might say that it caught up with me.

This guy seems to be typical of his kind in the Monument. Those on the low desert are of a lighter color with a shell that is a bit lower or flatter.

Third "Camera" walk

 I see lots on these walks that I would like to show to you. For example, I was able to watch this tortoise in action today. It looked great stretching its legs and neck and looking around like it owned the land.

However, I am not able to get the shots I want with this nice little canon A1200. It would be good for taking picture of my friends in front of the 7-11.

Even at full zoom it makes things look much smaller or much farther away than the look to my old eyes.

By the time I got close enough to this guy to take a picture, he was inside patiently waiting for me to leave.

Sill, I am pleased. It is the first desert tortoise I've seen in the wild for years.