Crocs, Iguanas and Relatives for RDP

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This croc and others live in the river across the road from a house I have stayed in in La Manzanilla.
One swam within 10 feet of me as I did my daily water aerobics in the ocean in front of my house. Bystanders watched it swim behind me without commenting–until later. Thanks, guys!!!
Here’s a smaller relative.
And an iguana.
An artistic rendering of an iguana by my friend Laurie.
Art or nature? You decide.
My early morning alarm clock, this fellow tried his darndest to get me to come to my sliding glass door.
He bumped his head and scratched at the door with no success.

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The Ragtag Daily Prompt is Reptilian

These are all reptiles I either visited in La Manzanilla  (where some of them visited me) or found in my garden. Luckily, the larger ones I left behind when I came back home to San Juan Cosala!!! Oh, and you may have detected that a couple of them are artistic renderings.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Agreed. I’ve even found two snakes in my house. One was on the floor behind a huge jar that held my umbrellas. I threw a blanket over it and carried it to an empty lot a block away. The other was a problem because it was in my sink and when I tried to capture it, it vanished down into the garbage disposal! No, I did not do what you might be imagining. I put on heavy rubber gloves, removed it with my hand and put it in a container to, again,, relocate it. In both cases they were slender black snakes perhaps 1 to 2 feet long.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          There was no other person around and even if their had been, my hand is smaller than Paciano’s and I wouldn’t have asked Yolanda to do it. I’m not really afraid of snakes and I had probably researched the kind of snake it was before doing so. The alternative would have been to wait for the snake to emerge on its own and go elsewhere in the house so I had no idea where to find it. Or, for someone else to come along and turn the garbage disposal on. With a result I don’t want to think about.

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