Tommy's Tour-March 12, 2012

This is the famous TOMMY! He has been doing the Living Desert Tours forever, he says. He has a wife, and 2 boys, one is 21 and one is

 Here is our group: Tommy, Pres. and Sis. Ladle, Elder and Sister Smith and our 2 AP's. Elder Featherstone from SLC, Utah, and Elder Thole from Zambia.

The desert was so green because of recent rains.

 Tommy's usual position. He had eyes like a HAWK. He could drive and scan the landscape, stop quickly and go looking and find the most amazing living creatures.

This is a spider netting used to catch animals. It is like a spoke on a wheel going around the clock. The netting looks like panty hose with sand on it in spokes going out from the center and it is all underneath the sand.

 A great lizard, no the picture isn't me! He does have a great bite.

I know he is in here! It is a tiny fish out of water.

A snake trail seen by Tommy from the road.

 Too much free time.

 A sidewinder is in there somewhere. Only 1/2 of their body is touching the sand at one time. That is because it is much too hot for a cold blooded animal to be out on hot sand.

 The beautiful Namib desert with varying patterns and colors as a result of the rain.

 This cute thing has wonderful flippers in front and in back and would have been successful burying himself in the sand except for the recent moisture which made the sand very hard. Tommy had to help him. He sheds his skin and then eats it for protein and moisture.

 A very rare white beetle.

The home of animal above the white beetle.