View toward Jordan

View toward Jordan
Originally uploaded by wandering lizard.

This is another view of the field site, looking toward Jordan. The border is a fence about 200m from where I took this photo (it's probably too small to see here), and the mountains are in Jordan. There is a burrow in this photo, to the right of the acacia tree and marked with a cairn. This spot had 4 active burrows in it, but we never saw an actual lizard. This is also as close as I could get to showing how spectacular the scenery is at this site, and how barren the terrain is on the Israeli side of the rift valley. To give you a sense of scale, the acacia tree is about 7 feet tall, and the mountains are well over 1000m.