And they are so common….welcome to Nacala!

Oh well, it´s 9 p.m. and I am in my room after a meeting with the regional TG group were I was invited to show my video preparation.

Today I started and finish the day…having 3 degree meetings with all source of African animal life…

I woke up in the morning and went out of the room thru the inside of the house. Usually I just use the outside door. Today I was glad I am not so much an habit animal! After some minutes I went back to the room from the normal way and..guess who was trying to take a nap in my green´s door net?

THIS! Oh boy!!! And I love them SO MUCH!This one was around 8 cm long and 8 cm large with the feet.

Then I just decided not to disturb him till he decides to go out of my door and I went eating breakfast and do my stuff.

So, in front of the house, I was seeing the sea and our beach and then I just look at the floor and…uau! Another one! This one looked like a dead brown leaf!

And after 5 min another one near the corner of the house, looking like a small branch of tree…

Ok…its starting to be the time of “ gafanhotos”…good..i will have to control myself and start facing also this fear..

I went to the kitchen to finish my coffe and take my vitamins and in the floor, near Daiva´s room was…a dead mousse…nice! It was a small one, maybe 12 cm long without the tail…nothing special..and so after a green leaf bug in my door I just putted gloves to pick up a dead rat…

But, it was still smelling a lot to dead animal and we realise that it wasn´t coming from that mouse…so were was it from? We search and search and then…inside the electricity box..something was there….it looked like feathers going out of the box…we couldn’t open it..i went to try to find one of the gards to help us but he wasn’t around…then daiva came to my room to tell me that she had manage to open it and…it was SOMETHING inside dead..great…something…unrecognisable…oh god!

Ok so Daiva was almost vomiting and Angela wasn’t even around..so guess who had to put gloves again? Yep…bingo! ME!

After gloves and one “mola” for the noose..i went….and it was smelling like hell!!!

It was another dead mouse but this one...already decomposing…nice…I had to concentrate a lot before I finally manage to touch him…oh god..he was very..fluffy…almost has if it was a hall inside him…disgusting!!!!

Ok..second try to try to pick him up and put him inside the plastic bag..i approach the victim…and with two fingers and my eyes half closed I just push him up by his tail….and!!!!OH MY GOD!!!!!he WAS with a hall inside him because he was being eaten by dozens of verms!!!!big yellow long disgusting verms…like the ones we see in CSI when the bodys are decomposing…the mouse body was moving because of them…

I filled myself with the last straight I had and…almost crying I manage to, in a short movement, but the mouse in the plastic bag…I was almost vomiting…im so proud of myself..some years ago I would just run 30 km away from that mouse! But the verms..i just couldn’t…it was to much..so I finally found the guard and he did that partJ

So ok, till now we have green leaf bugs, brown bugs and branch bugs and 2 dead rats and verms..nice list!

But then I was talking again with one of our guards about that green bugs to try to increase my “African animals culture” and he told me that that green one is inoffensive BUT there is a long one that is poiseness and it grows a lot and then goes inside the tree and changes to cobra (of course that this last part I didn’t believe but anyway). He told me that he would “save one” for me when he found one so I could know them..ok..good...better know him dead then eating my skin…

In the afternoon I still manage to see another type of leaser in one of our trees. Brown and slim and very long, with long agile feet ( he was like 10 cm body and maybe more 15 in tail).

So besides “osgas” a family of 5 of them at least, and blue tail leasers and brown and white tripped leasers, we also have 25 cm brown ones…very good!

I arrived to the meeting in the school and a cockroach was using my chair..a small one of 4 cm..its dead was quick…the Danish teacher took care of it before meJ

And finally I was coming home and I sow another green leaf bug and also the guard had another nice surprise to me! Remember the poiseness bug?

Oh ya!!! He killed one, because it is actually very common in here AND “ there are a lot during night”…so the THING was there on the concrete floor and it was grey and some parts of red..and it was fucking big..oh yah..it had like maybe 10 cm long without the feet…and I understood that it was another type of what we in Portugal call of “louva-a-deus”.

So today was a very “national geographic” day. I know that I like that programme and I like animals but…can they be from another class that is not insectivorous????

Oh ya…actually they can…

They can be scorpions and snakes that I was talking about with the guard the other day.

Its starting now the scorpions time and here all of them are bad..usually here in this precise area we JUST have the black big poiseness one…and they are usually around the house in that concrete part.

“And snakes?” yah snakes..we have…”yesterday I killed one just there in Giampaolo´s yard during day..it was around 1,5 meters” I am SO GLAD that we have this guards! They are afraid of dogs but they kill snakes and scorpions and gigantic bugs just as easy as I take a cup of coffe..no problem…

about snakes he also said that its now starting their season…and that are a lot in the hill that goes down till the sea. Also we have to be careful to pass under the trees specially at night. And that are a lot of different ones…one type is always going in pair and..if you kill one you have to burn it because if not the other one will follow your smell and will chase you till it baits you..it can take 1 day or 1 week but it will do it. Also our guard found some days ago a snake with two heads..he says that here its very common…

I guess here any type of poiseness strange animal is common…common like “every day” common…

Finally I was forgetting our flying unts..they are adorable..with 2 cm long and wings! And they built a cocoon in any corner of doorsJ lovely!

Oh well today I am going to sleep well thinking about my “new pets”J

And i´m happy! I have amazing pictures to take home! Oh! Maybe I can do some business with National Geographic!

Noapte buna!