Progress seems a bit slow today, The pens are taking shape nicely.

Hopefully when I return back to the tegu farm later today much more will have been completed.

The rains have not been very kind to the building work, but it is progressing nicely.

With the trees out of the way there is plenty of natural sunlight for these enclosures.

Starting to look good

Finally I have some time again to update the blog.

Much has been happening over the last month.

We have just started to make the pens for baby/juvenile tegus. Hopefully the build will be completed in 3 weeks at the most. Unusually for this time of year we had some huge downpours of rain which have cause us to lose a couple of days work with the building this week.

This was the view after day 1, they had to cut down 2 jackfruit trees (only for wood not the fruit), 2 coconut trees, and move 8 banana trees to clear this ground.

First off we made the hides that we had picked up from their old enclosures,

A bit of cement and digging it didn’t take long, although very hot work!

At the end of all the work a bit of drinking and feeding goes down well!!!

After a long and hard drive up to the west of bali the following morning we started to pack up the tegus.

Driving in Indonesia is evry different to many other countries, on Bali there are no freeways/motorways just 1 long arduous coastal road.

It was quite hot work, and there is nothing like a luke warm can of sweat to refresh you.
We also had a few fresh coconuts at the same time !!
Unfortunatley there was the drive back and unpacking to do in the ame day…..

For most of the population here on bali there are many religious ceremonies based around everyday happenings.

Hindu religion or Hindu Dharma is held by almost 95% of the population. Its teaching is to reach peace and harmony in life guided by the Wedas as Holy Scriptures. Hindu Dharma is a special blend of Hinduism, Buddhism and ancestor worship that has been flourishing over the centuries. They believe in One Supreme God called Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, with His three manifestations known as Trisakti, that is Brahma The Creator, Wisnu The Preserver, and Shiwa The Transformer.

This particular ceremony was to mark the successfull completion of the build,

Some ceremonies are very long and expensive, some are simple (like this one)

Its the morning after the finish of the building,

I had a quick look to see how the sun sets now after trimming the trees, Its looking really good, the sun at 730 am is really warm, so later in the day it should be roasting hot for the tegus !!!
And nice and cool in the evening for them also.

The work has finished on the construction of the adult breeding enclosures.
Next we will be making the enclosures escapeproof.

We also trimmed a few of the trees to ensure there are big area available for basking in the sun.

Wow the end of week 2, and possibly only 5 days left on the project!

Although today is another religious day here in bali….but all the workers turned up to continue the build.

Everything is starting to look really good, the tall trees will be trimmed today to give one end much more sunlight which the tegus will love to bask in.

These are cool little fellows,

We had them get very exited a few weeks ago, these go by many names, Gong frogs, Chubby frogs and painted frogs to name a few.

They are quite small but very pretty, can you notice the cool one hidden?