Returning to St. John roads requires
some adjustment. It’s not just remembering to drive on the left and handling
the steep hills that turn into rivers when it rains. You also have to watch out
for all the unusual traffic.
Like the bands of roving
donkeys that block the North Shore Road and refuse to move because adoring
tourists have trained them to think that jeeps mean treats - or else….
Up on Centerline, it’s cow
country.
Coming
and going.
They don’t want anything from
you - just doing their own thing at their own pace.
There are also pigs up there.
And goats.
Along the road by Frank Bay
near town, you have to watch out for peacocks crossing.
While in Fish Bay, great
egrets leisurely look for lizards.
And is it hard to miss the chickens.
Whole families of chickens
like to run out into the road just as you approach.
Really, why do they do
it?
Then there’s the slow-moving
traffic in the low-lying areas.
You may have to be patient
when you find an iguana taking a nap in your lane.
Or a hermit crab taking a
stroll.
A deer knows to move out of
the way of an oncoming car.
Unlike a donkey, which will
just stand there like an ass until you decide to back up and squeeze around it.
Drive carefully!
