What a day! Margaret and I joined Cliff Dorse, Suretha van Rooyen and Rob Leslie for a trip to the Groot Winterhoek Nature Reserve which is about a 2 hour drive from home. The intention was to go and look for a fairly recently described species of frog known as the Northern Moss Frog that had been described from there and had only been seen by a tiny group of professional Herpetologists to date. Soon after arriving, we picked up on their calls in some dense tussock-like vegetation and, because these frogs are tiny, this was not going to be easy. The first bit of scratching around produced a real surprise in the form of a Tradouw's Mountain Toad, another frog lifer and one that can be really difficult to find. Eventually, after a couple of hours, Cliff located the target frog and we were officially the first group of amateurs to ever see this beast! It was tiny and made for some rather difficult macro photography. I can't remember when last I have seen 2 frog lifers in as many hours in the Cape!! Once we had all saturated ourselves with this little beast, we headed off to some rocky slopes to see what reptiles we could find. Virtually the first rock that Margaret turns up has another special under it and a lifer for all of us - a Small-scaled Dwarf Leaf-toed Gecko. We carry on clambering up the slope and turning over rocks and locate a number of species and Burchell's Sand Lizard is a photographic lifer for me as well. We also manage to find no fewer than 3 species of scorpion. All in all, an awesome day and it has really got me back into my frogs and reptiles in a big way!