E Komo Mai and Welcome back to our special world of fauna and flora in Hawaii. The magic word today is "Gecko".
Long before the insurance company Geico adopted the gecko as its mascot, the Hawaiians knew the true value of their little friend. They shared their homes with the gecko, allowing it to roam at will, eating bugs or any other not welcome insects in the Hawaiian homes. The chirp, chirp of the gecko - mostly at night because geckos are nocturnals - was and is a reassuring sound, knowing the geckos were doing their job keeping the hale (Hawaiian for house, home) free of bugs.
Now,I know a lot of visitors come to the Hawaiian Islands not knowing about the benefits of the gecko and their first complaint is, "Hey there is a lizard in my room". Well, I say that's not a lizard, that's a friendly and non-threatening gecko.
Our geckos in Hawaii don't bite, in fact they don't really like you, just leave them alone and they will serenade you with their chirp, chirp chirp and keep your hale free of bugs. Of course you have to clean up some gecko poop once in a while. Little to pay to keep your tropical hale bug free.
If you have a gecko story about your encounter with the geckos in Hawaii, please, let us and our Hawaii visitors know. Mahalo and aloha, Keoki Hawaii Vacations
2 comments:
I still haven't gotten used to the geckos that are everywhere. I suppose their better than the bugs they eat, but they still creep me out. Every now and then when I take discount travel vacations I'll go somewhere where the native pests are far worse than these little lizards.
I tell you spiders and cock roaches can freak me out but not those little geckos in Hawaii. And as Keoki says geckos eat those insects which freak me out.
Another great trait of the geckos in Hawaii is they really stay away from people and don't bother them. Actually they run away so fast that it's really very hard to catch them, if one wanted. So it's live and let live with the cute geckos.
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