Tropical diary, started and stopped

[urbpan]

01-19-08
We fall asleep heavily to the ringing of the frogs. We wake blearily to the insisting scratchy squabbling of the bananaquit. The frogs are little treefrogs with a loud, nearly musical mating call that falls somewhere between our familiar spring peepers and the alarm from a reversing truck. In their thousands they reverberate and blend. The bananaquit are tiny yellow and black birds, songbirds that evolution has pushed into the hummingbird niche, feeding on the year-round abundance of flower nectar.

What i really like in the tropics, is to move slowly, or not at all, and notice that I'm surrounded by scurrying life. I realize that for some people, the phrase "teeming with lizards" doesn't inspire comfort or glee.

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[agelena.livejournal.com]

for some people, the phrase "teeming with lizards" doesn't inspire comfort or glee.

After we'd been dating about 7 months, Mike took me on a trip to the British Virgin Islands. We were staying at a hotel on St. Thomas where a breakfast buffet was served in an "outdoor room." There were walls, floor, and ceiling, but the open windows were so huge that we were practically outside.

One morning, I reached for a muffin on the buffet, only to find a largish gecko perched on it, prompting me to exclaim "There are lizards everywhere! I love this place!"

Mike later commented that he'd never dated anyone who would follow that first sentence with the second one.

[momomom.livejournal.com]

"Teaming with lizards" sounds lovely to me.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

"teeming with lizards" is much preferable to say, "teeming with nickle sized ticks" or "teeming with ad executives."

[(Anonymous)]

Glad we're still hearing from you while you're on vaycay! Resort communities often leave me cold, with all the westernized development that can eclipse the local/native cultures and make island resorts like one big Disneyland. Viva lizards! (I loved BrushRat's comment -- ad executives make my skin crawl). :-)

~Flaneuse in DC with no avatar

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Oooh I would love to be in a place with so much interesting wildlife!!!! :)