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Namosi Road
By Sean | June 17, 2008
This video should probably be two videos because they are different subjects and they are just kind of glued together. The first part is the result of a run-in a beautiful bird had with the glass doors on the ocean side of our home. Things quickly went from bad to worse as our two cats converged on the bird sitting stunned on the porch. I managed to run out and stop the cat who now had the bird in its mouth and was quite pleased with catching such a lovely prey. (Birds are undoubtedly a cats favorite catch)
However I love tropical birds a great deal more than I do the smug look of satisfaction my cats have when they catch a bird. Therefore this is not the first time I’ve rescued a bird from the jaws of our feline friends. I always give the cats lots of praise when one of them catches a rodent or a lizard. However they’ve learned that if I’m around that they must let me rescue the bird. The birds here are always colorful and very intriguing. There are no birds here that are plain looking like sparrows. In fact the nuisance bird in Fiji is the Myna bird. This is the kind of bird you pay a couple hundred or lots more from a pet store in America.
I don’t know the breed, species, or name of the bird in this video and I’m not enough of a bird freak to find out. All I know is that I’ve had a good many birds sit on my hand too stunned to fly or do much but sit there petrified of the creature holding it but too weak or numb to do anything about it without risking something worse.
Then the movie morphs into (well it doesn’t morph — it just fades out of one scene and you are suddenly half way up Namosi Road looking at a small river — or mountain stream — depeding on your frame of reference. We took a drive a couple days ago up to the top of a mountain pass, took a few pictures, and drove back down. The video will tell the story. Nothing noteworthy happened — just a beautiful drive through the rain forest to some breath taking scenery, shoot pictures of a couple trucks going by and back down again. Really just a look around the neighborhood. I started with an hour of footage and cut it all down to less than 10 minutes. Even then it’s a pretty lazy story — much like most of what happens in Fiji.
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