It's A Jungle Out There Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Roatan is not only famous for it's underwater life, but it's got some pretty cool terrestrial fauna as well. #1 features LoLa and "Flash" the sloth. It seems like everyone who looks at this photo says, "How cute!" Sorry, he bares more than a passing resemblance to a branch of my mother's family that also recently came down from the trees... No one thought they were cute...
A beautiful day despite the smoke with almost 15 miles visibility. Winds were off by 5.2kts and the sea surface was smooth. The air temp was 49.8 and the water is up a degree to 63.1. High tide was at 11:17am +5.9' and low tide follows at 6:38pm -0.6'. The buoy says it's a SW swell out of 230º at 2.3', but it's flat. So there...
Personally we're more partial to the parrots (#2) and this one was especially interesting. He's a Scarlett Macaw and can talk, dance and pull a cork out of a bottle of wine. On another part of the island we saw them in the trees. We finally had to tell this one to "be still, shut up and work on the cork..."
This is "Mike" the Capuchin monkey (#3). He would steal your cell phone and then make you change your service to T-Mobile before he would give it back. He was especially fond of LoLa and groomed her the entire time we hung around...
Finally, we found our way to the Iguana farm (#4). When we walked in Tarzan thought that there were palm fronds scattered all over the grounds. Nope, there were probably a hundred of these green iguanas (even though a lot of them range from yellow to brown). They give you a couple of stalks of elephant ear plant and they come running to you like some Pleistocene herd of saurians. It's kind of cool at first and then when they don't back down you begin to wonder if they are still pissed off that mammals did so well...
Laurel Tavern. 5:30pm. Friday.
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"The Professor!!
