Mr. GBH isn’t around much these days, but yesterday I spotted him across the water, looking very snooty indeed
Lenny and Linda Limpkin paid him no mind, as they foraged around in the shallows for apple snails, their favourite hors d’oevre.
Back on land, a smaller version of Ignatia was exploring our defunct water feature, which will one day be restored to its former glory when hubby has finished with the inside of the house.
It’s little sightings like this which rather puts me off doing any gardening. I don’t fancy reaching down to pull up weeds, and accidentally shaking hands with something green and scaly.
What would be your thoughts on this? Would you be keen for a close encounter of the iguana kind?
I’m linking this post to Jude’s ‘Wildlife in the Garden’ challenge. If you have wildlife in your life, just pop along there and post your link.
Iguanas are not my favourite kind of anything but loved your pics 🙂
I long for a close encounter with an iguana (under supervision preferably). Shall be in St Augustine in June for three weeks and it’s top of my list 🙂
lovely visit from Mr GBH but sorry to be snubbed by L & L 🙂 oh, those scaly claws are scary! 🙂
Thanks so much, Lola. L&L really keep very much to themselves. They love their own company. Yes, those scaly claws are really scareee. 😯
For some reason I can’t like your post Sylvia, the like buttons won’t load.. You certainly have quite the menagerie in your garden! 🙂
Thanks so much, Adrian. I think the internet is probably a bit overloaded this weekend. 🙂
I don’t want to get in contact with those. I don’t want to wind up being a villain in a superhero movie. 😀
Well you could be a hero instead. 😀
To each his own. You have a problem with “green and scaly” things in your garden while it’s the threat of large, eight-egged critters that keeps me away.
Hmmm……..I’m not sure which I would rather choose to have a close encounter with, John. 😕 The answer is “Neither.”
Sweet GBH. I wouldn’t like to find surprises (like that) in the garden. Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about those here. I imagine my grandkids would love it.
I know my grandson would be very taken with the scaly beastie, but I’m not so sure about the granddaughters. 🙂
You have such a great imagination and turn of phrase Sylvia. Be careful, be very careful when weeding!!!
Hmmmm………Your comment reminds of that movie quote, “Be afraid, be very afraid.” 😳😅
Haha you’ve got it…
I always love your wildlife!!
Thanks so much, LIsa. 🙂
Great photos, Sylvia! I agree with you ~ I wouldn’t want to have a close encounter with an iguana either. Although they are kind of cute in a weird way 🙂
Thanks, Carol. Yes, a very weird sort of cute. 🙂
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I love iguanas and went gaga over them in the Galapagos. Just no 6 foot ones in the house please and thank you.
I so agree with you. I shall put up a ‘STRICTLY NO ENTRY TO SCALY PERSONS’ on my door. 🙂
I hope they can read. 🙂
Wunderschöne Fotos ich wünsche von Herzen schöne Ostertage eine Umarmung Gislinde
Thanks so much, Gislinde. Hugs to you. 🙂 xx
LOL, you’re right, I wouldn’t garden either! Actually, I don’t garden now… so that’s going to become my excuse from now on! 🙂
Hahaha. Glad I could be of some assistance with the excuse. 🙂
I think if I did that I would find my body going into spasm as I danced on the spot. Then once I’d calmed down, I’d try to have a jolly good look and apologise for frightening the life out of him/her
Hehehe That does conjure up a funny picture, Ruth. 🙂
He’s very cute but his hands are kind of creepy, Ad 🙂 🙂
Only “kind of?” 😕
I’d be quite happy to meet an iguana, I think. It would certainly be preferable to a visit from some relatives I could name.
Hehehe I feel the same way. You can choose your iguanas but you can’t choose your relatives. 😕
Sad but true. 🙂
That one is a beauty! I don’t think I would like my hand in the garden with him either. We used to have a bearded dragon who was sweet and loving but you never know with the wild ones, how they react with you. I need to show this picture to my son who absolutely loves scalies.
Yes it is rather splendid. Your son would love living amongst all the scalies we get here. 🙂
He liked the picture very much. 🙂 He wants to buy a lizard again…when he moves out.
I am not keen for a close encounter of the iguana kind!!!
YOu do surprise me, Aletta. 😛
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That hand looks so alien, but not entirely I inviting if I knew it was there….as you meeting it by surprise might not be so much fun😊
So prehistoric and not so very different from us. 🙂
Beautiful reflection of Mr. GBH with his nose up in the air, Sylvia. 🙂 The Limpkin couple seem so content at their meal buffet. The Mr. Ignatius is intimidating but don’t hey mainly eat vegetarian or grass? I would see if having a clicker or a bell would scare the Iguana. It still is a beautiful place to live. ❤
The Limpkins are a lovely couple, and quite dainty feeders. 🙂
I’m not sure I’d like to shake hands with her, but at least she’s got her nails done 🙂 Great shots, Sylvia!
Thanks so much, Helen. 🙂
Be sure to wear gloves. I’d recommend leather.
Green leather? 🙂
I’d lean more toward thick rather than color (colour!) 😉
😀 Elbow length too.
Love how the iguana appears to be hugging your water feature as if to tell you, “This is mine!” On gardening, I’ve never grabbed an iguana, but I did grab a clump of weeds once and pulled out a small snake! I don’t know how far I flung him, but I do know I let out a deafening scream! 😲
Hahaha. Yes, he does look quite possessive, doesn’t he? That poor snake probably got more of a fright than you did. I hope he landed on his feet. 😆
I know that poor snake learned to fly briefly! lol
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My thought on this? I am 100% with you that I would be so scare to reach down into tall bush or grass to pull them out. I am afraid to accidentally shaking hand with any version of Ignatia.
Thank you so much for agreeing with me, YC. Now I don’t feel like so much of a wimp. 😀
I love your iggy, but boy has he/she got long claws! Thanks for all your lovely wildlife 😊
You’re very welcome to my wildlife, Jude, claws and all. 🙂
I know what you mean. Once I was picking rhubarb and discovered that a bearded dragon was resting in the middle of the plant. I got a much bigger fright than he did.
Yikes! That must have been quite a surprise for both of you. 😯
He wasn’t as bothered as I was!
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LEATHER THICK gloves all the way for me!! Ewwwww!!! No thank you! Even with leather gloves ….. I’m not sure if I would garden. You’ve got quite some characters around you, Sylvia!!! LOVE your shots! 🙂
Thanks so much, Amy. I’m so glad that you agree with me about the gardening. 🙂 xx
Yup, sure do!!! LOL
Great and beautiful colored photo’s.Nice reflection in the water on the first photo.
Thanks so much, Marylou. 🙂
Cool shot of the lizard. I still can’t get over how you have so many large lizards there while we have none that I’ve seen in 7 years.
BTW: Yesterday, we had 2 white pelicans fishing in the lagoon. So they haven’t all headed north . . . yet.
How lovely for you with the white pelicans, Nancy! I read that these iguanas aren’t native to Florida, but are the result of people releasing their pet Iggys into the wild once they became too big to be cute. 😕
I would not have one clue what to do with a Ignatia, I’m much happier looking at him close up on a photo!
Haha I don’t really want to do anything at all with Ignatia, except take a few photos. 🙂
I’m discovering I’m very fond of iguana-like animals….
On my way to Jurassic era , I love your photos a lot!
Thanks so much, Anna. 😀
What a beautiful creature – but no, I wouldn’t like to touch either.
He is rather splendid, just to look at though. 🙂
Mr Iguana is a handsome guy … from a distance … and if you’re into greenie scales, but like you, I would not be so thrilled about an unexpected close encounter.
Thanks, Joanne. I’m with you. 🙂
He looks friendly enough, if a bit . . . fluorescent. 🙂
Yes, I’m sure he would love to make friends, Hariod. 🙂
I like him very much and would be fairly happy to get up close, and I’ve also been snake draped, they’re fine if you know what they are. I can never see the fun of keeping reptiles as pets though – or spiders and rats!
Me neither, Gilly. I think pets should be either of the cat or dog variety. Even hamsters give me the creeps. 🙂
Good to see your pictures of the wildlife are still so great
Thanks so much, Sidey, 🙂
all i can say is..wow:) i miss being down there even just to see the birds Sylvia. and for the
Mr. Iggy there..well, i remember when we took a cruise and stopped in Mexico, there was a boy, and for a few bucks we could hold His Iguana , of course we all did, and i have pics somewhere, it was so long ago.
i also remember it had some type of diaper on???
i think id at least get close to your friend..im not sure”_
Holding an iguana is something I’m not sure about, but one does some unusual things when on holiday. I’ve even had a huge python draped over my shoulders. 🙂
Omg!!! Well I can tell you flat out that would never happen . I don’t even go in the reptile took at the zoo!!!
I have to watch other people do it for a while and if nothing untoward happens to them, I figure I’ll be safe. It was the same when I went parasailing. 😃
Lol your funny Sylvia. I loved parasailing .. We did it in KW. I’d never change my mind about the other .. I’m not sure I could even watch someone , your brave !!!
We have enormous lizards in Australia. They are usually harmless as long as you leave them alone. There is a national park near the beach at Noosa in Queensland where lace monitors wander among the visitors. I think they are great.
Yes, we saw the big lizards when we went to Lizard island. Our guide said that they were harmless as long as not provoked.
He was having a senior moment-Looking up for inspiration. LOL that scaly creature no, no, no, Sylvia I’d stay far away…
Hahaha Maybe you’re right about Mr. GBH, Cheryl. 🙂
Yes he had that stoic thinking look about him-Sylvia!!! x
Are you old enough to know about ‘senior moments’? 😅
No but my parents are 62/64 y.o.-they have those stare into space looks every now and then-I loveeeeeeeeeeee them dearly!!! x
So sweet, Cheryl. x 🙂
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Great shot of Mr snooty GBH Sylvia. Lovely reflection of him in the water. 😀
Lenny and Linda is adorable as ever and clearly they don’t care about snooty neighbours. LOL!
Oh, I would just sit there all day long and just take photos of them, and of course make friends with them Sylvia. You know me! 😆 Absolutely gorgeous and I just love those cute feet with the long fingers! 😀
Thanks Sonel. Only you could find those long green fingers, cute. 😄 xx
hahaha! You think? I am sure there are lots of other folks who will find them cute as well. 😆
Mr GBH sure does reflect on life a lot doesn’t he 🙂
Quite the claws on the lizard! never seen them like that before :O
Haha Yes he is often in a reflective mood. 😃 Those green claws, I find quite scary. 😳
Same! war of the worlds comes to mind 😱
My first thoughts…he needs a manicure. Those are some long nails! Great shots, Sylvia!
Thanks, Jill. I’m not volunteering to do the nail job. 😄
Me neither!
Such beautiful pics, I absolutely love them, paradise for sure!
Thank you so much, Holly. 🙂