Afghan Wildlife - Picture Heavy

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Originally Posted by darthkevin

I just got back from the Khandahar Provence. I will post some pics tonight of the stud I saw there. Camel spiders and crabs. It was crazy seeing a crab there lol. We named him Mr. Pinchy. Ran into a few snakes but we kept our distance because we couldn't tell if it was venomous. Unfortunately I didn't get a pic of it but I can tell you it was sand colored and big like 3 foot. Scares the crap out of me on tower guard.

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Thanks again all. I am at FOB Sweeney in Zabul Province, so RC South just like yourself, and am the FSO and fires/S1 advisor for the kandak that our SFAT advises.

When I was at FOB Lagman (Zabul Province) in 2008, I saw a couple of the little saw scaled vipers. Unfortunately, I only saw one that was alive. The rest of them were on the end of a shovel. Our local Afgan workers killed them on site.

I can't blame them for killing them I suppose, as they are exceptionally uneducated. They are in the process of closing dow Lagman and moving everything there to Apache. I have moved from Bullard down to Sweeney, Slim, which is the SE Zabul district of Shinkai.

Back in '08, Shinkai was always a good place to find a fight. Hope it's better these days...

Awesome pics, I really like the gecko and camel spiders.

Hey Archie

Thanks for sharing those pictures. I always like to see what's around in the world, especially field herping pictures!

Max

Not really. Still a lot of people that either passively or actively support the TB but from what I understand it has gotten much better since '08.