BOULDER CITY & VALLEY OF FIRE
Boulder City has some pretty good places to find lizards.

Chuckwallas are large, sun-loving lizards that live in rocky areas. They mainly eat plants.

Western Whiptails are relatively common.

The Desert Night Lizard is the tiniest lizard in the Mojave Desert, reaching 1½ to 2¾ inches long, with a tail roughly the same length. The lizard’s coloring is usually gray, yellow-brownish or olive. It is a slim, velvet-skinned lizard.

Valley of Fire State Park is a scenic place to visit.

We came across this desert pool and decided to investigate.

In the water there were tiny, interesting crustaceans. Tadpole Shrimp are considered “living fossils,” since they have not changed significantly in outward form since the Triassic.

There are many neat rock formations in the Mojave Desert.

An elusive Mojave Collared Lizard.

Surveying his domain - a Side-blotched Lizard.

The Western Whiptail actively forages on the ground often near the base of vegetation and hunts a wide variety of ground-dwelling invertebrates, including grasshoppers, beetles, ants, termites, insect larvae and spiders.