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| Busted! Ninja Racoon (D.Philpot) |
As I sit here I cannot help but thinking
what I will see next, I feel like I am on the verge of a new sighting, and the
amount of animals we all must walk but don’t see (but they see us) must be sky
high. This led me to think of how
incredible it would be to spend life as a park guard, at the moment though it
feels like somewhat of a dream as it seems that it is rare for someone with a
passion for something to be thrown a bone by someone higher up.
00:10 Well the nature has most certainly
returned now. The German and I just
returned from a couple of hours in the lab to find watermelon all over the
floor by the spare fridge that is currently being used instead. The arm-sized gap, pulling the fridge door
open, that was left once the rope was tied to the fridge door was previously not
noticed for this past week with the family here and now it is just the two of
us, they have discovered it. 2 and a bit
melons were scraped out by a Racoon, or a few, the bare remains only made me
think two things. Firstly thank god my
knot was good enough not to give the clever ninjas a fridge full of treats, and
secondly how the German guy had not long said “we have a problem, we have too
many watermelons,” at once 6 and now 3.
I hope the fridge inside is repaired soon. Upon seeing the sticky watermelon Racoon-shaped prints on the wooden floor I joked to the German guy that if we see a
pink Racoon about we will know who done it. I think this was the ninjas revenge for 'catching' them.
An alarm has now been added to the
fridge, in the form of a bottle on top of a tub :-)
During the night I had to get up a couple
of times as a couple of Racoons returned.
I then saw an Anteater walking about and the German guy woke up pretty
ill so I looked after him as well. This
could quite possibly be the result of snorkelling in a ‘murky’ lagoon that was
surrounded by 300+ Brown Pelicans sat on every rock surface available. The lagoon stank, but I couldn’t help
noticing how interesting it was that all these birds had come to this spot
exactly the same day as the lowest low tide that I have known here so far and
that I can see in the near future, coincidence?