I've spent a lot of time photographing the flowers of St Maarten. Beautiful flowers and plants with French names that I could never properly pronounce or write. When it comes to the local fauna, I've had several encounters. Down by the coast there are lot of "sea" cats, cats abandoned or lost by their owners and survive off of sea creatures washing up on shore, or kind tourist. You can tell the ones that were once indoors, because they tend to approach you cautiously for food. Most are semi-feral, and will only eat if you put the food down, and walk away. I was approached on Backstreet by a trembling kitten looking for food. He was starving, his shoulders and hips were one thin line. I took him home, and now he's doing okay when he's not trying to escape. I can only assume the rest of the litter died. I went back the next day to see if there were more, but the gentlemen nearby said that they had only seen one starving kitten in the area, which means he got lost. I hope his siblings are okay.
Last night a huge green frog jumped through my bedroom window. I felt something wet touch my shoulders but when I turned on the lights, I couldn't see anything. I kept hearing weird plopping noises-and the cat did too-but I chose to ignore it. Then the kitten started going crazy, and so did the frog, so I had to grab a sock and rescue to poor frog, before the kitten got him.
I couldn't figure out if I should let it play out, like it would have in the wild-the kitten would have loved that-, but then I couldn't. The kitten kept looking for it, and harrassing me for about an hour, then past out.
This morning when I woke up, he was still looking for it.
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