Thursday, July 14, 2011

Always something new. . .

The other day while walking around the rancho after breakfast, we noticed some unpleasant piles on the walkway down to the rancho.

Not being experts in wildlife scat, we figured it was the monkeys having some fun, though we hadn't seen or heard them in a day or so.

We went to get the super-scooper (basically a big dustpan on a pole) to clean it up and were talking with Miguel and joking about the monkeys. Miguel cast a practiced eye on the piles (of course, the picture here isn't the real thing, we don't carry our camera everywhere) and pronounced it iguana droppings.

Naturally, we thought that Miguel was pulling one over on us, as it was a pretty big mess. Sure enough, though, after a few minutes of searching in the trees, we saw an iguana--relatively small at about 3 feet long--hanging out in the branches above.

2 comments:

Mike said...

Dude, do you seriously expect us to visit if you have 3-foot freaking iguanas hanging out in the trees? Yikes.

lu-mar said...

no worries when they're in the trees, except for a little surprise from above. . . they have some serious tail-whipping action for defense when they're on the ground, and you don't want to mess with them at that point. . . no worries, i'll escort you guys around!