Well, if you are a bit squeamish it might be best to close this blog today. I've been wanting to post these pics of the critters we saw on our trip a few weeks ago. The reptile (we don't know what it is) can eat baby chicks and runs fast. We saw another, much larger one near our house. It's body was as big around as Todd's arm. Apparently it is pretty rare to see them. The one we have a picture of was running around near the roof of the house we stayed in.
The last two pictures are a scorpion-like centipede that was, well, IN the house we stayed at. I'm glad Todd found it and not me!
Back in Manila, a few days ago, our first indication that the weather was about to change was seeing a bare-foot man high in the neighbor's tree, chopping down the upper limbs with an axe. Two days later, we woke up to the steady sound of heavy rain on our neighbor's tin roof. A typhoon was in the area (but never actually "hit" the Philippines)! We looked out the window, and our street was flooded 12" deep at some points! We actually live in a higher part of Manila - some parts of the city were flooded waist deep or more. The drainage system isn't adequate to handle the heavy rains of a typhoon, so it is very common at this time of year to have flooding. The funny thing was all the traffic that diverted down our residential street, looking for a route. I even saw a huge passenger bus cruising by.
The last two pictures are a scorpion-like centipede that was, well, IN the house we stayed at. I'm glad Todd found it and not me!
Back in Manila, a few days ago, our first indication that the weather was about to change was seeing a bare-foot man high in the neighbor's tree, chopping down the upper limbs with an axe. Two days later, we woke up to the steady sound of heavy rain on our neighbor's tin roof. A typhoon was in the area (but never actually "hit" the Philippines)! We looked out the window, and our street was flooded 12" deep at some points! We actually live in a higher part of Manila - some parts of the city were flooded waist deep or more. The drainage system isn't adequate to handle the heavy rains of a typhoon, so it is very common at this time of year to have flooding. The funny thing was all the traffic that diverted down our residential street, looking for a route. I even saw a huge passenger bus cruising by.
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