"Invasive Iguanas Expected To Fall From Trees In Florida Due To Cold Temperatures".
Our last home in Florida was located on a half-acre lot in the Kendall area, and we took full advantage of the big backyard by adding to the trees that were already there (the place had four or five avocado trees when we moved in). We planted honeybell tangelo, and lychee and several other specimens, including a mango. I recollect inspecting the mango tree one day - it was only about seven feet tall when I planted it - and I was standing in, among the branches, when one "branch" suddenly seemed to come alive, then break off the tree altogether. It wasn't an iguana, but a genuine chameleon, and a biggun, let me tell you. I think I set a record for the reverse standing long jump (I'm not entirely sure that you wouldn't have heard a noise similar to Boing! when I leapt backwards).
I hear iguanas cook up tasty. Might be an option if the supply chains keep on falling apart.
ReplyDeleteDo they taste like chicken?
ReplyDeleteWe spent four winters in Florida (three in Navarre in the Panhandle) and I never saw a single iguana. In fact, the only iguana I've ever seen in person was a pet that a guy kept in a huge terrarium. Good eating you say? I've had gator bites (sort of like chicken tenders), so I wonder than Florida restaurants don't do the same with iguanas.
ReplyDeleteMcGuanas...coming soon. Maybe they'll be cooked up with the variety of rubs and sauces used on wings. Buffalo guannie, anyone?
ReplyDeleteFrozen Iguana sounds like a neat umbrella cocktail, depending on what's in it, of course. I'd swap the umbrella for a tree, but I like the umbrella.
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