So, it's pretty exciting, the other day in Trinidad, I was in the taxi, and I saw this huge bright green leaf move slowly across a yard. And then I realized it was a lizard. A huge lizard. My taxi driver got pretty excited too, but not because it was an iguana, apparently, they’re all over the place. But because nobody had eaten it yet. Apparently, if an iguana that big touches the floor, any trini in their right mind would kill it and cook it. I hope it got away.
I also saw a kid flying a kite next to a pylon, which worried me a lot, but the taxi driver said on the bright side at least he didn’t attach video tape to the end as tassles, as most kids do. Apparently if the tape hits pylons the electromagnetic-something-or-other in the tape short circuits the wires and it literally explodes and knocks out electricity for the whole block.
Oh, and finally, I saw a turtle (not in the streets of Trinidad, this was underwater in Barbados). In fact, I saw several! Luckily for you, you can see it too, because I had an underwater camera. Click on the video below. Amazing. The underwater camera later proved to be not quite as water proof as I hoped, and now is in camera heaven, but not before I took quite a few photos. I will now have to return to my pink mist camera (arg), but in the meantime, enjoy some underwater animal action.
(note that a girl kicks the turtle in the head twice...)
(Baby tortoise)
(slightly more mundane, every time I come back drunk after a night out this toad is by my doorstep and I cannot stop myself from taking photos of him and probably traumatising him. he's massive)
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