Gecko baby!

Once again I’m gunna start with a couple of band links, then I’ll tell you about the young gecko that was on my desk!

The Living End are a major Australian… uhhh… punk? Ska? I dunno. Band. They’re a major band. Sadly they also came on last, and were one of the older bands on the bill. After Hilltop Hoods the crowds just vanished. I love the band, but I was just too tired by that point to stick around.

Then there’s Muscles. You should bloody well listen to his song Ice Cream. I’m linking to his MySpace page and it has a play option for the song on the top. It’s just an absolutely amazing song. Wish I’d had the energy to check him out live.
The Living End
Muscles

Anyway, enough about that, there’s geckos to speak of. I have plenty of stories about geckos. Mostly about them laying eggs in my toy collection.

But, ehn. I’ve told those stories before… today I have a cute story! There was a gecko baby on my desk! And I took photos of it!

THAT IS THE END OF THE STORY!

So, laying eggs in my toys. I’ve told this story a million times, so why not come at it from a different angle? Basically, geckos living in my house is a fact of life. They poop all over the place, they lay eggs inside my toys — sometimes I’ll find egg shell inside one of my Transformers when I go to clean it or transform it. I’ve even found whole eggs a few times. They’re just a part of life.

And the noise they make… I don’t know how to describe it. This high-pitched warbling cry. It’s amazing the amount of noise one of these things can make. Usually you don’t see them too close up — they’ll be high up on a wall, or you just won’t see them at all. But you can definitely hear them. I dug up a youtube video with a little sample of their sound, though it doesn’t really get across the volume they can achieve:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9687eisYY

I dunno what else to say. They eat bugs, they get squished in doors and windows… they’re a part of life in Townsville. So much so that Hobart’s cat had to have an inoculation against toxic build-up caused by eating too many geckos. Apparently this is actually a problem for some cats around here.

Plus, I had a baby one on my desk! Cute or what?

Normally I’d comment on the pictures themselves in the alt text, but today’s alt text is pretty much entirely dedicated to my friend Hobart. So whatta we got here? Well really the three things of interest are the gecko looking at a sketch of a character from an upcoming story… the gecko underneath my brand new Cybershark toy (and a drawing of the toy’s head)… and the gecko on a toy car! Which… well… heh.

The less said about that the better!

–Andrew S.
(Yawn. I am sleepy. Plus it turns out I didn’t have that many stories about geckos.)