Hello from Tanzania! Perhaps you thought that we would be seeing giraffes and zebras all the time here? So far these statues in a garden down the road from our house are the only ones we have seen!
But, there are plenty of other creatures that live right around us that are lots of fun and sometimes come to visit....
Here is a little white goat. Notice that this one is tied up - but lots of them are not and just wander around where they please. Sometimes they like to eat gardens!
These tiny ants live in our kitchen and can sniff out any crumbs within minutes...
I think these are guinea fowl, who live down the road.
And this spider came to visit the other night. He didn't seem to want to chat though, and kept running away when I tried to take his picture.
This is the rooster, who crows every morning at dawn (and pretty much all day!) He and his wife came to visit through our back gate. I'm hoping that some day they will leave us an egg or two. But if not, I can buy some fresh ones almost at our gate.
One day Lars and I went for a walk in our neighbourhood and met these 2 turkeys - I think this is a male and a female.
One day, as we were sitting outside, this lovely brown cow came through the gate. She was more interested in the bougainvillea than in us!
So we chased her off before she ate the whole bush!
We have lots of these little brown chameleons who live on our walls. One day I saw a baby one no bigger than your finger (Immy's finger).
When we were in Zanzibar, this black crow (magpie?) and his friends were very interested in our breakfast, and waited patiently for us to finish with it. We were actually sitting outside here.
Also in Zanzibar, we visited a forest preserve where this endangered Zanzibar Red Colobus monkey makes its home. We saw lots of them in the trees, but apparently this is one the few colonies of them left in the world!
In the same preserve, we went for a walk through the mangrove forest where we saw these brown crabs. Notice how camouflaged he is!
These little white crabs have one claw much bigger than the other! I don't know how they can walk!
Here is a family of ducks making its way through this Zanzibar village to the ocean.
And when we went to Tanga, this family of grey monkeys was living in a tree by our hotel. This baby looks very sleepy...but it's mummy showed her teeth at me when I went too close. I think she was trying to tell me to stay away!
Finally, what would a story about creatures be without a picture of some human ones? Here Lars and I are sitting in a cave (that's why the picture is so blurry - it was pitch dark). There were a lot of bats hanging around, but I couldn't take a picture of them. They were trying to sleep, but our guide kept throwing stones at them to wake them up - it was a bit creepy!
Maybe next time, I will have some pictures of lions and zebras and elephants. We'll have to go to a national game park to see them though.
Lots of love,
from Molly
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