Immy and the Toad

I don’t know how the story about me picking up a frog leaked out but I seem to have all the toads and frogs in Luangwa knocking on my door now.

I’d only been asleep about 10 minutes last night when I woke up to find a red back toad 2 inches from my head on my pillow. I shooed him off and went back to sleep only to wake up again to the feel of something on my back. I flipped over and heard a thud on the floor, which with further investigation with my torch I found it was the same toad. It was now 3am and I was beginning to feel a bit spooked by this toad as I was worried about what else it would attract to my room. So instead of going back to sleep I read, which was good timing as I got to hear the lions roaring and the hippos. I eventually drifted off to sleep but woke up again this morning to the toad sitting on my chest winking at me!! I threw off the sheets, which was a bit of a mistake because I then couldn’t find him. I almost thought that maybe I’d dreamt the whole thing so I got out of bed and after searching everywhere for the toad went into the bathroom. I came out of the bathroom to find him sitting on my pillow!!

Well he was persistent but there was no way I was going to kiss this toad. Red Back Toads are very poisonous if you were to start licking them. It’s their defense to stop animals from eating them.