Rock Iguana at the boat yard 3/16/10
He is kinda cute in that creepy kind of way!
yup, people here need this sign at their house!
More Recent Stories »
We love rock iguanas like we love our dogs and cat. They aren't so cute and cuddly, and I say that we love them when they are hanging out at a distance from our house! This week while boating with our family here on Spring break, this little creepy guy was at the boat yard just hanging out watching us on the sidewalk near our boat. He looks like he is 100 years old (though they can live only about 25 years) and I only know he is old by the color of his skin; dark green is older while bright lime green are younger iguanas. These Rock Iguanas, are also known as “whorl-tailed” iguanas because of the colored rings on their tails, are only found here in the West Indies. How cool is that?
I was sad that I had eaten all the sliced apples while boating and didn't have a snack for him to munch on. We have seen him now a couple of times in the boatyard so maybe I should save at least one piece of fruit just in case I see him again huh? At least they are harmless and only seem to eat veggies and fruit, though they will eat insects, small animals (yikes!) and small lizards too. With that said, once my friend Randy got bit by one in Aruba while feeding an iguana chicken, so I guess they can nip a human if they want to. Ouch! Maybe his finger looked like a piece of chicken? check out this link with pictures of their teeth and what a bite did to someone. Geez! http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steve.woodward/teeth.html
Did you know that Rock Iguanas have been present in the islands for some 12 million years. No wonder they look so creepy and old!
Comments »
It is Sea Sand Designs company policy not to accept or consider unsolicited creative ideas, suggestions, materials, or business proposals from persons or entities outside our company. If at our request you send certain specific submissions (for example, a photograph, or story), or if despite our request that you not send us unsolicited creative materials, you send us other suggestions, comments, feedback, ideas, postcards, opinions, concepts, graphics, text, drawings, or other materials (all of the foregoing, collectively, the "Materials"), all such Materials, submitted or offered to Sea Sand Designs on or by this Site or otherwise disclosed, submitted, or offered in connection with your use of this Site shall be and remain Sea Sand Designs property. Such disclosure, submission, or offer of any Materials shall constitute an assignment to Sea Sand Designsof all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual properties in the Materials. Thus, Sea Sand Designs will own exclusively all such rights, titles, and interests and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of any Materials. Sea Sand Designs is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Materials in confidence; (2) to pay to the user any compensation for any Materials; or (3) to respond to any user Materials.