Iguanas run rampant, hermit crabs are tiny and huge, birds and fish think they're on National Geographic, and catepillars are shiny. People who've been to St. John told me that there are iguanas everywhere and that they just walk around. Well, it's true. You can see some in the pictures, but that wasn't all of them. On one of our last days on the island, an iguana was sunbathing on our pool deck. There was iguana road kill, which was sad. There were iguanas on rocks, in trees, and in flowerbeds. I saw more at the Westin than I did anywhere else. They were just walking on the lawn, eating flowers, and crossing the walking paths.
Hermit crabs showed up on our front porch one night. We saw a giant one and then after we looked around, we saw there were crabs of all sizes. Brad tried to pick one up and it "attacked" him so he dropped it, breaking it's little shell. Poor thing.
At the beaches I got to see a fish jump out of the water, wiggle around, then flop back in. I also got to see a pelican dive into the water to catch a fish. It was circling over the water so I knew something awesome was about to happen. Everyone else was drying off but, since I'd already been out of the water awhile, I was sitting in my beach chair watching it all unfold. The bird swooped down, dove underwater for about 2 seconds, then emerged with a big, fish-sized beak. He just zoomed off to a tree after that.
One day after it rained we went outside and saw these black and white and shiny red catepillars with hot yellow tails and heads. Apparently they turn into these huge moths called Sphinx Moths. Look em up.
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