The boulders near the palm oasis were festooned with small-scaled lizards, banded rock lizards, and these large wary fellows. Most of them wouldn't let me get near enough for a photo before scuttling away into a dark crevice, or around the back of a large rock. This one finally stayed still on a palm trunk while I slowly crept up on it.

The granite spiny lizards were really annoying on this extremely hot morning. I saw a lot of them in about an hour and a half (20, but who's counting?), but couldn't get near enough to any of them to get a decent close-up photo. They would mock me by basking in plain sight, waiting until I was almost ready to take a photo, then casually climbing out of sight into a crevice in the granite.