Coral Seas Garden Hotel is just that.
Garden like and very picturesque.
Imagine a bamboo tree, multiplied by 150.
Very close together in a circle. Its about a 15 foot diameter.
150 thin trees, About 30-40 feet high.
When the wind blows they rock back and forth with the breeze.
There are plants and bushes and other trees all over the place.
All the time I see Humming birds and another black and yellow bird.
The Humming birds will chase the Black and yellow out of the area.
There is this one tree, that has a family of these Black and white birds.
They will buzz by you when you walk under the tree.
But the groundskeeper guy catches it all day.
As he rakes, here they come.
Dive bombing and screeching by his ear.
The other hotel workers laugh and joke with him.
Sometimes the guy does get a little upset when
the birds come very close to his head.
Once, I saw the bird shoot down to his head and let out a
loud screech about 3 inches from his ear.
"Mon, the don't bother anyone else, just me!
"Everyday, as I'm raking and cleaning the grounds." he said.
One day I saw him talking with another worker and they were looking down at the ground.
It turned out that one of the birds was "stuck" between the teeth of the rake he uses.
I know it would be hard to catch a bird with the rake,
but what I think happened is that he was raking and the
birds were giving him grief as usual.
I'm thinking without any warning,
the man just swung the rake up very quick, without turning to look
and "WHAM, the bird was coming down just at the right time to get stuck.
The bird was stuck good, but calm, not flapping to get un-stuck.
We laughed, the Man said
"that's what you get, stop harassing me".
Eventually he shook the bird loose.
Nature at its finest at the Coral Seas Garden
