Chameleon

I forgot to mention one cool thing that happened on Monday.

Greg was sitting by the pool and I came down after lunch to join him. He said there was a lizard in the pool. A what??? I asked him if lizards could swim and then started thinking about it. I had been in that pool and it was very, very cold. I could only manage to make myself go in to the top of my thighs. What would that do to a cold-blooded reptile?

I walked over to the deep end (which was where the little guy was floating). The first time I reached in to get him, he sluggishly swam away. I immediately thought about coming up under him, so he could climb on my hand and get out. Of course, I started thinking about him running up my arm and into my bathing suit, but decided the ickiness would be worth it to get the lizard out of the pool.

He jumped right on my hand and stayed there while I gently set him on the pool deck. Poor little guy was frozen...cold-blooded creatures cannot manufacture body heat and so, if we hadn't rescued him, he would have probably frozen to death...and the way they clean the pool here, he would have decomposed in the bottom of the pool...

After a while, he warmed up and scampered away. Wonder what he thought about his icy swim...and of course, this was the one time I didn't have a camera!!!