Lizards are everywhere in Dakar, in every color of the rainbow. As I told Josh, I would rather have 10 lizards in my house than a single spider or cockroach. Can we make that trade, Mother Nature? We haven’t seen any lizards in the apartment yet (and, luckily, only a few big bugs, all of which were already dead), but the dogs have been startled by them a few times outside. They’re pretty skittish little critters, but now that my long lens has arrived from the States, I’m hoping to get more close-ups.
Rachael Cullins is a twentysomething American girl living in Dakar, Senegal, with her husband and two dogs. She blogs about her adventures in Senegal and travels elsewhere in West Africa. She will reside in Dakar until summer 2013, when she and her family will move to another foreign post as part of her husband’s career with the U.S. government. In addition to West Africa, she has traveled to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy and Costa Rica and plans to continually add to that list.
