After having our original plans cancelled for the day, Margaret and I decided to head down to the Melkbos section of the Blaauwberg Conservation Area to try and find a small reptile that had first been described from that area in 2003. It is called a Bloubergstrand Dwarf Burrowing Skink Scelotes montispectus and only 6 individuals have ever been found previously. Despite many hours of searching the area, we were unable to locate the beast and the only consolation was a photographic reptile lifer in the form of a closely related animal to the one we were looking for, Silvery Dwarf Burrowing Skink Scelotes bipes of which we found 2 individuals.