ALMADEN QUICKSILVER COUNTY PARK
There's a place that used to be used for mining that is now a County Park near San Jose. I decided to check it out.

Chalcedon Checkerspot.

A "power trio" of Slender Salamanders.

Banana Slug.

Northern Pacific Rattlesnake.

Close-up.

Skilton's Skink with a brown tail.

Skilton's Skink with a blue tail.

Ringneck doing the "make your tail look like a corkscrew" thing.

Pacific Northwest Scorpion.

Tiny California Toad.

Big Red-ear Slider.

Killdeer.

I have yet to find my first wild tarantula, but this "False Tarantula" was pretty cool, and the largest wild spider I've ever seen.