Yala Safari Adventure 🚙🌴🐆

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fun times in the forest: last night i heard some scrambling under the bed and thought "if this is a rat, then all 3 of these cats are useless because this is the bedroom - our most 'home-base' space - and it should therefore be the least likely to have a rat."

i thought i heard it scrambling toward the cat food bowl which is next to the bed. so i rolled over, turned on my phone flashlight, and was face to face with THE biggest cane toad i've ever seen. possibly it seemed bigger because it was <1 foot from my face and illuminated in the flashlight and i wasn't expecting it at all 😆. it was bigger than the toad that was using the cat water as a personal chillout pool last month (this one would not have fit in the cat water bowl), or perhaps it was that same one, but grown substantially since then!

anyway, after i composed myself, i blocked off its path back under the bed with a book, got my garden gloves and a bucket, and put it in the bucket (i could barely hold it in a single hand, it was so big). these guys don't have much of a defensive strategy aside from "be still, sit facing a corner, and hope you are mistaken for a rock", so they don't really try to escape too much. i tossed it in my azolla pond (where it should be much happier than under my bed). really hope the sucker doesn't try to come back.

fun/unfun fact: they were introduced to hawai'i because of their 'voracious appetite', as pest control. i really should make a zine highlighting at least a handful of the invasive species that were *deliberately* introduced to the island.

anyway, the pic doesn't really do it justice, but there ya go.

#herps #toad #hawaii #offgrid #JungleLife

I've decided that ant nests are just nature's way of letting you know when you're not using your shit enough. "Haven't used your adorable Japanese tea cups in a long time? Well, now they have ant nests in them."

This message brought to you by my Japanese tea cups, and by ants.

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🐊💧 Mugger Crocodile at Water in Yala National Park 🇱🇰🔥

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🦌💧 Deer Drinking Water in Yala National Park 🇱🇰🌿

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Leech on my hand in Sri Lanka — Wild Experience!

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Dangerous Lone Bear in Yala Jungle — Close Wildlife Encounter in Sri Lanka

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🐘💚 A heartwarming safari moment as a baby elephant walks closely with its mother — pure love in the wild!

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