Wild Meat!
So, today I went to have lunch with Natty. She told me to meet her by this little place across from Public Beach along West Bay Road. They have two decent food places there and its about 10 minutes drive from her office, so she has been going there a lot recently. Anyway, when I get there, she tells me I must come sit in her car. We wind down the window because we were getting a bit of sea breeze there, and we started to attack the food.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. I turned my head and there was a huge wild iguana making its way across the parking lot!
It was four feet long if it was an inch! Don’t believe me? Look at the next picture! It is lying diagonally under the car. It also has its head and part of its body turned to the left, so its not lying stretched out fully. Thats an SUV its lying under and you can see that its just about 6 - 8 inches shy of stretching from wheel arch to wheel arch! I don’t know about you, but its not everyday I see something like that!
This is one of the green iguanas that have made their way over here from Honduras and / or one of the other Central American countries, mind you! Its not one of our indigenous blue iguanas! Its said that these green iguanas are attacking the blues as well, and contributing to making the blue iguana endangered. Because of that, a woman I work with told me that I should have grabbed up a big stone and killed it. Not me though, Rasta! I think its pretty…. look at the rings on its tail! 
I hear the people from Central America who live over here eat these iguanas. I hear they eat them in Guyana as well, there they call them wild meat… hence the title to the post.
The pictures above were taken with my new, svelte, Fuji Finepix camera, my Christmas gift from Natty! Thank you baby! See, I can take this camera with me everywhere! I can be a real roving photojournalist now! Wheeee! 
Watch out, Cayman!
There was a bit of excitement about two days ago as well! An 8 foot female crocodile seems to have swum over to Cayman from Cuba, Jamaica or from the Dominican Republic. It was caught at Old Man Bay, see the story here…
Here is the picture… what a way they have the croc hog-tied?!
Anyway, ah gone me gone!
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Oh No, poor croc. The last time they saw a croc in CI was 1959! Wow. Oh, do they have to kill it? I hope not.
Hey MB, what have you done? My link no longer takes me to the main blog (Mad Bull Blog) but now takes me to El Toro.
No, Gela, they don’t plan to kill it. It may well end up living out the rest of its days in captivity at Boatswain’s Bay though. They are setting up a “Sea World” type attraction there, they even plan to have a predator tank (read sharks and other such evil fishys). The croc may well get its own tank there, who knows?
Oh, and your being sent to madbull.wordpress.com was intentional. I will soon update things so that the http://www.madbull4.net/ URL points back here. Why am I doing this? Read this post. Tell me if you hate the idea.
muss a fool fool fishman shop it with a spear gun
That’s one ratid lizard! I bet you never got out of the car, lol! I have never seen an iguana here, although the ground lizards here are almost as big as an iguana. But I here they are are here too.
I’m glad to hear that you got a camera, now we certainly will be seeing nuff pictures of the amazing adventures of the Mad Bull.
A crocodile in Cayman, amazing! Now you have more than lizards to worry about.
This past June I was in a home in West Bay. I was just beginning my morning constitutional in the second floor bathroom when I heard an out of place shuffling noise from over my shoulder. Imagine my wide-eyed stare as I turned to be face-to-face (within 18 inches) with a 3 foot long version of the pictured lizard.
These dragons don’t scare me at all but, I wasn’t expecting one on the second floor and in such close proximity, without any warning. Needless to say, he beat a hasty retreat when I snapped him with a handy towel. Feisty rass!
Folklore and superstition aside, these iguanas are harmless! They do not eat the Blue Iguanas. In fact, for the most part they are vegetarians. They only threaten the Blues by competing for the same food and possibly diluting the Blue’s DNA through interbreeding. There are poor people in Central and South America that do eat iguanas. But, I defy anyone to show me anyone that has eaten one in Cayman. If nothing else, Cayman is good for outlandish stories and rumors that spread faster than wildfire.
Finally, what’s up with Cayman lately? First a manatee shows up then, less than six months later, a crocodile is captured! Perhaps Cayman DOES have an immigration problem, after all.
Is wah kinda reptile infested place dat!?
I can’t see anything beneath the car in the photo…all I see is black….
Anyway, keep dem reptilian beasts ova deh!
Hmmm……..stinkin’ iguanas!!! Nasty creatures!! Buck up on one in the back yar after Ivan, and I was TRAUMATISED!!! Rat Bastard tek at least 10 years offa mi life!!
Stinkin alligator!!! Rat Bastard probably has brothers and sisters festering in de bushes! Did no one see Jurassic Park or Godzilla???
We have our own Cayman croc hunters. Who needs Steve Erwin??
Better than making shoes or a handbag out of the thing. I’d keep the iguana as a pet.
i dont like dem things at all
I don’t think I seen one that big. But here iguanas are very common..see them in trees etc a lot. They taste good too:)
well, that does it for sure. its now an absolute moot point!!! Any remote possibility of Mommy even VISITING you guys is SHOT TO HELL!!! :):):) LOL I not too sure i willing to chance it either!
Cho. Dem not doing you nut’n, 7!
I thought you were going to say how you ‘fraid of it cause it look like a giant lizzard, and me know how plenty Jamaicans ‘fraid o’ lizzard baaaad.
Yes, is true, some Guyanese nyam iguana, which upsets me, I hope they’re not becoming endangered here. Them eat alligator tail soup too. All sorts of wild animals get eaten here. Them foreigners nyam too.
I thought you were going to say how you ‘fraid of it ’cause it look like a giant lizard, and me know how plenty Jamaicans ‘fraid o’ lizard baaaad.
Yes, is true, some Guyanese nyam iguana, which upsets me, I hope they’re not becoming endangered here. Them eat alligator tail soup too. All sorts of wild animals get eaten here.
Those is some ugly critters you have posted here!!! Yuck!!! The camera takes good pictures though.