I’m not sure if insects can fly hundreds of miles across open ocean, or for that matter, if they even want to, but as far as I can tell they can’t. \u00a0St. Lucia was delightfully lacking in the typical insects of the Northeast. \u00a0I don’t recall seeing a single mosquito dispite the almost constant presence of puddles and standing moisture they so love. \u00a0We as honeymooners were not alone on the island however.<\/p>\n
Everywhere you look there were frogs the size of a quarter, large snales, and lizards that would impress Geiko. \u00a0Whether they were actually geckos or not I have no idea. The frogs hung out on frondy plants that hung near the short sidewalk lights that were all over the grounds of the resort. \u00a0My wife and I came to call them “Frog condos” thanks to the multi-layered housing effect and the fact that we often so more than one of them near a single light. \u00a0The idea of housing or warmth was quickly replaced with the reality that they were hanging out for a midnight snack made up of any tiny light attracted bugs that were silly enough to pass within tongue range of the tiny amphibious hunters.<\/p>\n
During the day lizards basked in the sun on anything they could find. \u00a0Sometimes it was the same lights the frogs made into hunting zones, other times it was random guard rails or plants, but most often it was literally in the middle of the sidewalk. \u00a0My initial thoughts at this pattern were along the lines of “well, I guess you are next on evolutions list to elimitate for playing in traffic.” \u00a0How truly wrong I was. \u00a0Never in my life have I seen an animal so like a ninja before. \u00a03 inches of lizard could go from apparently asleep in the sidewalk to simply gone before you even knew it was moving. \u00a0They moved very quickly, and were nervous enough about people that you couldn’t even get closer than about 4 or 5 feet from them before they did their vanishing act again. \u00a0This turned my wife and I into very frustrated photographers indeed.<\/p>\n
On the exact opposite end of the speed spectrum was the humble snail in its not so humble shell. \u00a0They were large, they were slow, and frankly they were short lived. \u00a0I personally squashed at least one during our stay by stepping on it in the dark without knowing it was there. \u00a0Walking up the roads at night revealed that they didn’t have much better luck with vehicle traffic either. \u00a0There were creepy slippery smears of snail guts and shell bits all over the roads every night just waiting for the next day’s torential rain to wash them away into oblivion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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