A trip to where?

What made this trail? And why did it stop? And where did it go?

And what form of propulsion?

Makes a lizard look absolutely sloppy in comparison.

A long lizard trail

We’re getting to that time of year when we wonder what things must look like at night, given all the tracks we see in daylight with no evidence of what caused them. Generally, lizard rails cross the sandy trails as directly as possible, from one side to the other. Lately, though, a few seem to have changed their minds. This was an extraordinarily long “exposed” track.

We actually haven’t seen any good-sized lizards in quite a while.

Strange tracks in the sand

No footprints. So what was it? How did it move?

The beetle and the bird

I doubt they were there at the same time.

Mystery visitor(s)

When you come out in the morning and realize that *something* has been wandering around on your glass table.

Mysterious critter trails

Indecision

I’m not sure what left this trail, but I get a kick out of the little loop-de-loop lower left. Maybe the whatever-little-critter version of turning around as you head out the front door because you forgot the car key, only to realize it’s in your hand.

Good-sized lizard

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see it.

Note the size of my shoe at the bottom.

Here’s a video of one that showed up at a get-together in the interior.

Here’s a video of one we encountered on a walk.

Dog walk observations

A snake. Of the dogs, only Benji paid attention. When the snake adopted what looked like a striking position, we were both yelling at him to leave it alone.

He did, and it continued on its way off the path.

Recent winds turned the sand “roads” into recording media.

We stare at them, perplexed. We did settle on one type of track (not shown here) being caused by a beetle. But these remain mysterious.

And this must (?) be from a lizard, probably 20-30 cm long.