CRITTERS

CRITTERS 

Since moving in here we have seen a menagerie of critters.  The second day here we saw Howler Monkeys in the trees just out our back door.  We saw a mom with a baby hanging on to her and a few other adults milling about in the trees.  We were unable to get any pictures of them yet but they hang around this area quite often so we will keep trying.

We also saw a squirrel/lumur like thing with red fur climbing around the trees out back.  Jarred got a picture but it was too far away.  We have seen many iguanas and a multitude of lizards. 

The other day a coatimundi came milling out around the back of our place and then came right up to our back door and looked in hoping for handouts.  Here is its picture.

A couple mornings ago Jacob picked up his shorts from the floor and something fell off them.  He looked at and it was a small scorpion.  He caught it in a cup and we released it outside.  I have been told by many people that small scorpions carry the most venom so I am really glad no one was stung by it.  Needless to say, we make our beds every morning so nothing crawls into our beds.  J 

We have seen a few of these colorful crabs here now.  They don’t live right on the beach.  They actually live back up in the bushes which is kind of weird.  They sure are cool looking.  Driving back from the beach today, Jarred and I saw one in a mud puddle.  He was a testy little bugger because as we drove by, he flipped his claws up and waved them around wildly.  Jarred and I got a laugh out of that.

 

Of course living in a jungle basically, we are inundated with all kinds of insects.  So far no really ugly spiders have made their way into the house but Jacob took a picture of a creepy one out in the carport area last night.  His phone has passed away though so we can't retrieve the picture.  We have two resident gecko’s which are very cute.  I hope they are the reason I have seen no creepy spiders.  There are also weird centipedes, ants, various beetles and such that routinely make their way into the house.  So far nothing too freaky or threatening.