I met a lot of lizards on our trip to Maui. I like lizards. There is just something cool about them…
Do you see the lizard in this picture? Let me zoom in a little closer…
That is a handsome chameleon. I don’t know if they are native to the island, or escaped from a pet store. There are a lot of animals on Maui that were brought there by us, and a lot of those animals are creating havoc with the natural animal population. We watched this guy from our hotel balcony while we ate lunch… well, it wasn’t really a hotel, but I will get into that later…
That is a nice color for a lizard… but because he was on the trunk of the tree and not on a green leaf, he decided that it wasn’t the best color… so he changed it…
Not exactly the color of the wood, but I guess it made him happy.
That is a gecko. They are just adorable. I took all these pictures at the second hotel… sort of… that we stayed at. I never saw lizards in the jungle. They are too good at hiding. But the lizards like the hotels… the lights attract bugs for them to eat…
Most of the rest of these pictures I took out in the little smoking area.
Some of the pictures are more in focus than others… I wish I could remember if the clear ones are from my camera or cell phone. Or it might just be that I kept trying to get the phone close to the lizards but not close enough to scare them away.
The lizards really seemed to like this one big leaf right by where I sat to smoke…
There was always at least one lizard on that leaf…
I got so I could recognize some of them…
Some of them had frills on their backs. Some of them had camouflage patterns. Some were just plain black or green or brown. But they all do those lizard push ups. That cracks me up…
I named that one ‘Stumpy’… he was missing the tip of his tail. I am sure there is an interesting story behind that. The lizards were all very active, and spent a lot of time opening their mouths at each other, and doing their push ups, and opening up their neck flaps and chasing each other around. I don’t know if it was mating season or not, but they all seemed more interested in each other than in the insects.
There are two lizards having a stare-down. I don’t know if they were getting ready to fight… or something else…
But either way, I decided to give them some privacy.
Pouring My Art Out 
So did you stay in condos that you rented? That’s where I stayed when I went to Hawaii, a big high rise just of Waikiki beach. We brought in breakfast foods to help keep our costs down too.
One night in a nice hotel, and then a week in a ‘ boutique hotel’… I will tell you all about it sooner or later.
lizards are cool; that is all
is it?
…no…the last bit was ‘when they’ve not been in the sun for a while.’ I thought it better left as was…bit of a let down…
not for me it wasn’t…
Leapin’ Lizards thats a lot o’ lizards! It would have been cool to see the one on the striped leaf turn two tone.
They can’t all do that trick.
Love lizards. And get that one having a few costume changes – the diva.
I love all the geckos in Thailand that would scoot about the ceiling, and australia was the best, my friend lives on a man made lake on the Gold Coast, I’d be out on her terrace and these huge lizards would come out to see what’s going on will have to put the photo up, we’d feed them, and then the turtles would get jealous and swim over, and the black swans, then some lorikeets would swoop in and even a dormouse popped his head up. I felt like Dr Doolittle.
That sounds awesome.
It was amazing..I may have been a bit stoned too, that probably accounted for the conversations I was having with them
that should only account for the conversations they were having with you
You’re messin’ with my mind 😀
usually
Lizards are neat. I’ve never been to a tropical county so i’ve never seen them in the wild.
I have been in rainforests, but this was the first time I ever saw real jungle.
Did they start talking to you?
no… but I did start talking to them…
i believe that!
why wouldn’t you?
exactly
oh… right
What, no lizard mating shots? Those last two looked a bit randy to me.
So how much have I missed of Hawaii? I’m gonna go back and read it all. Must. I want dirt!
The people were all mating, if that helps.
Strangely enough, that does NOT help at ALL! Unless, of course, you have some photographic evidence of that too… and no, I’m not talking about you and the missus!
I think taking pictures of that is in bad form.
It really depends on the form…
I have a very good form
Ha! Proof please!
You can touch if you want… ha!
Oh boy…
simmer down
by the way, in honour of your novel that i’m going to edit, i’ve decided to go all the way to where it’s based to do the editing. true story. sort of.
I would expect nothing less.
Naughty boys
hey… it is all him…
pft
yup
He started it!
No he didn’t or yes he did….you went with it
He’s very persuasive… and somewhat demented.
Ya that’s it
no it isn’t
what?
whatever we were talking about
which was?
how should I know?
Cause smart
oh…
stop touching me!!!
Never!
I am strangely relieved
yeah…
ha
whee
I know you are but what am I?
During our honeymoon, we sort of adopted the little gecko that scared the beJEEZUS out of me one day when I was watering the plants in the bathroom. I love those little suckers… I spent a lot of time in Puerto Rico growing up and lizards like the one in your picture ran rampant. They were EVERYWHERE and my cousins perfected the art of wearing them as “earrings”. LOL
They have really cool feet.
They do! Kinda makes you wanna let them walk across your face… LOL
yeah it does
Hooray for lizards! They are the best.
Growing up the desert, I used to go lizard catching with my dad and brother. Everyone once in awhile we would keep one that we’d caught as a pet, but usually, we just liked to see all the different kinds out there and learn about them while traipsing about the desert.
Did you ever see a Gila Monster???
Yes, but not by my house. Saw one in Joshua Tree I think… That was a long time ago… Could have been out near Trona instead. My brain isn’t what it used to be.
Was it ever? HA!
Yes. Once upon a time… I think.
Sounds like fiction to me… HA!
Could be. Nothing is certain.
fiction is certain
fiction is certainly silly
it can be
so can you
I do try to be
we all appreciate it
I should hope so
no hope required, it’s a done deal already.
hope is always required…
Hope is always a good thing. It isn’t always necessary.
oh… good point again…
I’m on a roll!
like a hotdog…
I was thinking more like some delicious pastrami.
right… you aren’t on a bun…
I prefer my pastrami on a roll.
so many bread choices…
one of the perks of the world in its current state
well played
I can?
Yes, you can-can.
toucan too
follow your nose?
I sort of have to…
you could walk backwards
Then I would keep knocking over all my followers…
They’d be walking backwards too.
That seems overly complicated… like one of my plans…
So… it’s perfect then?
precisely
Awesome.
yes… it is
As a kid I was fascinated by these little guys. The chameleon looks like the ones I used to buy on the State Fair midway every year. My earliest memory is of being disappointed because they only turned brown or green. I thought they were supposed to turn to whatever color they were on — red, purple, yellow, etc. Childhood can be so disillusioning.
There are bigger ones that can do that.
Do all different colors? Cool!
Those ones with the cone-shaped eyes…