Diaries of Statia                                 - About Statia

Well I haven’t described much about statia.! To be honest it wasn’t at all what I expected. Its a little bit ghetto! First of all the entire island is about the size of my small home town! Ya creepy. The roads are crazy. Like a 2 way street here is like one lane of a normal highway back at home. Most of the roads are pretty torn up too. No stop lights. Only like two signs, stop signs, and signs indicating if it’s a one way road. Some of the local drivers here are a little insane i think. Some don’t use the stop signs they just honk a few times before coming to the intersection so people know they're coming and speed right through. Nobody wears seat belts… Nobody. Except the new people do for a while sometimes. If you have a baby or toddler you just drive with them on your lap! No big deal. Really its crazy!

Most of the shops and little grocery stores are kind of shabby little buildings or whatever. Ghetto. Oh and I can't forget all the.. wildlife and little creatures. So there’s cows, donkeys, pigs, goats, chickens and whatever else scattered all around the island. Really, they don’t belong to anyone, they just wander around.. no big deal.

Then there are tarantulas, a variety of big and small lizards, iguanas, cockroaches, snakes, hermit crabs, scorpians, bats, ect. I’ve heard that the only really dangerous creature regarding poison are the poisonous centipedes, but apparently people never see them so that’s good news! I think I few of the other things have enough poison to make you sick if they bite or sting you like the red headed lizards, and the scorpions. No big deal.. AH! I think just the entire experience of getting bit or stung by an ugly, creepy little creature would have me on my deathbed! Juuuuust kidding! I’m really not a baby like that, promise… Anyways I’ve heard the tarantula bite just hurts a bit more than a bee sting. I just do my best to avoid all of it.

The sea creatures nearby are stingrays, lobsters, eels, sometimes jellyfish, lots of awesome looking fish, big Dori fishes!! Star fish, and barracudas of course..

So apparently because there aren't sharks nearby, the locals all say the barracuda is the next best thing to be scared of. Ya that sure makes me feel great about our little run in with one. Pheuff! Barely got away with my life there. ;) just kidding they’re mainly interested in fish so whatever. The only way I can justify myself going snorkeling is that I know for a fact there are no sharks. Ah, no sharks. No sharks!.

Statia, statia..