Popular Post JetsetBkk Posted November 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2021 To get to Big C? 2021_1030_130928_858 crop 2.mp4 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Looked mau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalNeal Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Little tiddler. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Now that is what I call a lizard. The one next door again , latest is it resides in the neighbours roof space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Was the guy in the other truck hoping to catch him for a quick barbie? Allegedly quite tasty ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLW Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 <deleted>tard in the red car. Probably too busy with make up in the mirror or on the phone. Not slowing down a bit, probably hasn't seen the lizard at all. Those are the kind of people running over small children at a school zone ???????????????? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DrPhibes Posted November 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2021 Thaut's naught a lizaard, this is a lizrd (about to go under the bridge in Samui last Feb, see brick for size reference): 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bbko Posted November 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2021 37 minutes ago, CLW said: <deleted>tard in the red car. Probably too busy with make up in the mirror or on the phone. Not slowing down a bit, probably hasn't seen the lizard at all. Those are the kind of people running over small children at a school zone ???????????????? Or a fast thinker that knew stopping a car just beyond a blind curve in the road is asking for trouble. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 8 hours ago, Crossy said: Was the guy in the other truck hoping to catch him for a quick barbie? Allegedly quite tasty ???? ???? No, he was just trying to wave him off the road, but the lizard got to the grass pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JetsetBkk Posted November 1, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 1, 2021 8 hours ago, CLW said: <deleted>tard in the red car. Probably too busy with make up in the mirror or on the phone. Not slowing down a bit, probably hasn't seen the lizard at all. Those are the kind of people running over small children at a school zone ???????????????? I flashed my lights at the red car and I think it slowed down a bit. I then put my flashers on and held my arm out the window to stop a couple of cars behind me overtaking. It was all OK in the end. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Tom Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, JetsetBkk said: I flashed my lights at the red car and I think it slowed down a bit. I then put my flashers on and held my arm out the window to stop a couple of cars behind me overtaking. It was all OK in the end. well done you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 The lizard was not such a bright monitor on the road as its name suggests ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 Here are a couple of videos from a few years ago (2010 and 2014!) of probably the same big monitor lizard at the top of Khao To Sae (Monkey Hill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfTntRriV0 The second video is pretty boring!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agz3sNXOoDo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Lowf Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 (edited) I've spent a total of almost about forty weeks on Phuket over the last few years and never seen a monitor in the wild until this visit. Saw one on a Kamala back street a couple of weeks ago, and then another last week on the road near the Z-Cape complex in Laguna - both of them bigger than the one in the video. I wonder if they have become more brazen since the tourist areas of the island have died? Edited November 1, 2021 by London Lowf To make it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLW Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 11/1/2021 at 11:39 AM, bbko said: Or a fast thinker that knew stopping a car just beyond a blind curve in the road is asking for trouble. not if the traffic obeys the speed limit and pays attention to the road. Not an excuse, there can be always an obstacle after the next blind curve.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beechbum Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 20 hours ago, London Lowf said: I've spent a total of almost about forty weeks on Phuket over the last few years and never seen a monitor in the wild until this visit. Saw one on a Kamala back street a couple of weeks ago, and then another last week on the road near the Z-Cape complex in Laguna - both of them bigger than the one in the video. I wonder if they have become more brazen since the tourist areas of the island have died? They're all over the place 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) Had one visit my garden every day at around the same time (a juvenile). I could always tell when it arrived as the resident pair of Common Mynahs would go batsh1t. Edited November 2, 2021 by KarenBravo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recom273 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 On 11/1/2021 at 10:56 AM, Crossy said: Was the guy in the other truck hoping to catch him for a quick barbie? Allegedly quite tasty ???? Thats the first think that went through my mind when the guy got out. Taste like chicken .. everything tastes like chicken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, recom273 said: Thats the first think that went through my mind when the guy got out. Taste like chicken .. everything tastes like chicken. Or, an equally valid statement could be everything tastes like Monitor lizard...........even chickens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 3 hours ago, CLW said: not if the traffic obeys the speed limit and pays attention to the road. Not an excuse, there can be always an obstacle after the next blind curve.... Yes, but why introduce another hazard - surely there are plenty enough on Thai roads already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmonkey Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Been here almost 10 years and still enjoy seeing the monitor's - mystifies me why the average Thai hates/petrified of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, greenmonkey said: Been here almost 10 years and still enjoy seeing the monitor's - mystifies me why the average Thai hates/petrified of them! Maybe because when they panic, they run and look for something to climb. If you are the highest thing around, they will climb you. Their claws are sharp and will likely cause infection if a claw breaks the skin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmonkey Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 1 minute ago, KarenBravo said: Maybe because when they panic, they run and look for something to climb. If you are the highest thing around, they will climb you. Their claws are sharp and will likely cause infection if a claw breaks the skin. yeah i guess that could be pretty scarey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beechbum Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 51 minutes ago, recom273 said: Thats the first think that went through my mind when the guy got out. Taste like chicken .. everything tastes like chicken. It's actually quite bland, a bit like croc, needs herbs and spices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 17 hours ago, KarenBravo said: Had one visit my garden every day at around the same time (a juvenile). I could always tell when it arrived as the resident pair of Common Mynahs would go batsh1t. I forgot about this one. He came into the garden a couple of years ago through a pipe that connects my garden drain to the storm drain that runs along the backs of the houses. My garden drain was full of leaves and the monitor appeared to not see the way out back to the storm drain. He kept going back to the corner where he came in, but never found the pipe entrance: Monitor in Garden Back and Forth.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 He had a good look around at ended up at the back door: Monitor in Garden At Back Door resized.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 The next time I saw him, he was in the car port. So I tried to scare him back to the corner of the garden where he came in. Big mistake! He ran through the front door - pushing the bug screen aside - and lodged himself between the security bars and bug screen on another patio door. I eventually scared him back to the floor but then he decided to explore. Fortunately, I had closed the doors to the bedroom and office so just had to get him back out the front door. I managed to do that with the help of a grass broom. (I've removed the sound track as there was some bad language. ???? ) In House crop.mp4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunglom Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 usually it's to get at the dead dog on the other side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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