Shongololo

Shongololo means, I believe, a thousand legs and during my stay here at 'Mes Amis" I have encountered a few of these beasties. I gave them a wide birth until I saw "Gerhard" pick one up and show some other shrieking guests that they are in fact harmless. In fact if you pick them up they will curl into a ball until its safe. So the next time I saw one I picked it up and put it on my table for a photo shoot (mainly for Tim ;-)
It was a biggy and made no attempt at curling up it just carried on doing its thing. Click here for photos.
Today I was sitting looking out to sea working on the website when I felt something crawling over my foot!! No problem I thought its one of my little friends, ooh no, when I looked down instead of the familiar black sleek Shongololo it was a dirty great hairy caterpillar!!! I flipped it off my foot almost turned the table over spilt my champagne and caused everyone to look over. It was probably harmless but I watched a nature program on TV just before I came over here and it sure freaked me out.

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