Notes, Jean 2005 Journal Finca El Nalle, Chiblac east of Barillas, Departamento Huehuetenango, Guatemala Oct. 30 We drove back to San Juan, but no one there had gone out to look for salamanders. We drove through Buenos Aires de Chiblae up to Palmiras de Chiblae and picked up Emilio, our guide from yesterday. We continued up the road from Palmiras for [illegible] km and parked. Emilio led us through some areas of secondary forest, down the other side of the ridge from Palmiras and into the valley of the Rio Yuallity. Across the river, there was a lot of forest that appeared not to have been logged. Carlos caught an indigo snake (Drymarchon corais) along the river - it was quite large, maybe 1.5m long. We walked up the river and then cut a path into the forest. There were lots of mossy rotting logs and stumps, although the forest showed no signs of logging. Four of us looked for almost an hour, and Ernesto found a Thrinax salsae (15.86722N, 91.27605W [WGS84], 13masl), 1046m elev - point taken where we found indigo snake). The forest looked very good for salamanders, but there were too many places to look and the few bromeliads I saw were inaccessible. It felt good to finally be looking in some intact forest. We walked out and down the valley to El Nalle, a collection of a few buildings. We searched one man's plot with many banana trees but found no salamanders. Ernesto found 2 Emilios boudinii. Across the river, we could see a road almost to the area of forest that we were just in.