We picked up some sandwiches from this little place called The Honey Pot, which I'd been dying to go to. It has such a delicious sounding name don't you think? Especially when all the other sandwich shops have names like "Pulled Pork Sandwich Shop" Umm... not the best place for your favorite vegetarian.
Alas, in the country, vegetarian food is hard to come by and even in The Honey Pot, the best they had to offer was a sub par egg salad sandwich.
While we were out we stumbled across the coolest reptile shop ever. Now I'm not normally in the business of sharing my dreams on this little blog, but a few weeks ago I had the most vivid dream about Heidi playing with a pet chameleon named Charlie. I have been wanting a chameleon desperately ever since, but where the hell do you even buy a chameleon? Well this reptile shop sold them!
The owner asked if I kept reptiles, and I replied, "no but I had a dream about a chameleon and I've wanted one ever since!" I could see his crazy lady / terrible reptile pet owner alert going off in his head, so I pulled the....
I've worked with cheetahs....
And elephants....
and Sumatran rhinoceros line. (coolest animal ever FYI, this is Emi and Harapan, they're famous)
I'm not sure if at that point he thought I was a complete nutter, but he seemed to believe me enough to tell me its chameleon breeding season! And brand new (captive bred) chameleon babies will be available in a few weeks!
Now these little cuties run about £100 a pop, and thats not including the fancy set up they require. They're also prone to stress meaning they die easily and only live for 2-5 years if well taken care of. Plus, the reptile guy said they are a lot of work and give you no affection, he recommended a bearded dragon as they are apparently more affectionate reptiles. However, I still want/need/must have a baby chameleon.
HAVE I LOST MY BLOODY MIND?
OMGosh - I need to start breeding those things! $$$$$ ;)
ReplyDeleteBTW-Love the purple nail polish.
I love that strange pink car !! So funny !!
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how lucky you have got to spend so much time with such amazing animals!
ReplyDeleteok...job opening for the kellster. Buy a few,mate them, sell them slightly lower tahn reptile guy and earn ur badge of "ugly American'
ReplyDeleteok Emz and Suzy, I appreciate your entrepreneurial spirit, but these guys are finicky maters. They're not like rabbits you know. Even the reptile guy couldn't get his two to mate, he has to buy babies in.
ReplyDeleteFlore that strange looking car is an icecream van!
Alycia I am really lucky all these animals are really great and I miss working with such cool species.
WAH!
ReplyDeleteTheose little babies are adorbs. Chameleons are such fascinating, intricale little creatures. I could never have one - I am terrified to death of even geckos.
That ice cream truck is the cutest and I lol'ed at the Pulled Pork Sandwich Shop Comment.
Love&Light as always!
So clearly I haven't read far enough back. Were you a zoologist or something similar back in the states? It looks like you've had some amazing experiences with those gorgeous creatures (and clearly, some V. Cool stories to tell).
ReplyDeleteHi Victoria, don't worry about reading back because I don't really go into it since I started this blog after those experiences - but I was an environmental science major in college and I did my student internships in Namibia at the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and at the Cincinnati Zoo - where I worked with the elephants and rhinos.
ReplyDeletethose are the cutest little creatures... with their buggy eyes. :P
ReplyDeletegreat photos, very interesting blog. I am writing for the Nat Geo Channel, so I think I'll look around your site a bit more! Love all those animal photos :)
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Wow so cool that you write for Nat Geo! Unfortunately I started blogging after I did all the work with animals so there isn't much on here about all that :(
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