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We are staying in a cabin at the edge of a mangrove swamp. For twenty years we've been visiting here and been warned of the crocodiles but have never seen one.
This week DH was out for a walk and stopped to look down a moisture-filled path. Nothing there. Then he looked down at his feet and there was the snout of a ten-footer right in front of him having a little nap in the sun.
He took me back another day and there was Mr. Croc again. I looked and kept on walking. Never have I seen a crocodile at rest with such wide, gleaming eyes, Nope! That was definitely not a napping croc.
Was out collecting wood on our camping lot, and saw a fox, and the fox saw me, and my dog saw the fox, and the fox saw my dog. LOL We all looked at each other for a minute, and the fox calmly trotted away.
Same camping lot, I saw a bobcat coming up the ridge. When it saw me, it just turned around and went back down the ridge. lol
We used to live in an apartment complex. One day, the complex management had a tree cut down. Well, I guess that traumatized the a squirrel or two, because the squirrels got weird after that. Came home from work one day, and there was a squirrel hanging on our screen door. It was tenacious, and did NOT want to move along, not even with a lot of prodding and having wasp spray sprayed on it. (The maintenance guy did that.)
I've seen coyotes just trotting down a busy street before...but I've never had a personal encounter with one.
I've had chipmunks, squirrels and wild rabbits just run over my feet, when I'm just sitting outside. I've had a bat brush against my face. I almost stepped on a baby copperhead last September or October...have a resident possum in the back yard, and on our camping lot, we see an armadillo from time to time.
One time in the late 90's I was living in Spokane, WA. I used to frequently go for walks in my neighborhood at night, it was a walkable neighborhood with good sidewalks, etc. Anyway, one night I was walking on the sidewalk of a street on one of these night walks, and beneath some overhanging bushes on the sidewalk in a dark spot I saw what I thought was a kitty. Being a cat lover I started to go toward it to pet it. I took a few steps in its direction and .... uh oh, it was really a skunk!! Well needless to say I didn't go any closer and I was like, "Whoa!" and backed off really really quickly.
Coyotes commonly come to my house or cut through the yard. If I sit outside on summer nights I know they are around. They are afraid to pass by me and stars to howl, which is too creepy to stay outside.
I was jogging one morning and came across two badgers engaged in “badger coitus” in the gully next to the road. They were quite unhappy to see me so that freaked me more than coyotes. I ran faster.
I had a guinea pig living in my honeysuckle bush who would come out to look at me in the evening. I guess it was a pet that escaped. I live in the desert and have a goldfish pond that serves as a water hole in the Serengeti. No zebras yet.
I found this photo from May while looking for one to use in an article. I watched them from a few hundred yards away for about an hour. The wind was in my favor so they didn't know I was there. The sow sent the cubs across the field and up a balsam fir when she heard a vehicle coming. They spent all spring eating clover in this field.
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