Geckos Are Our Friends....

... and we have them everywhere.  They eat bugs (yay!!).  They chirp charmingly.  With their little sucker-like fingers & toes they travel horizontally, vertically, sideways, upside down, every direction there is.  And I've seen them jump from the deck railing out onto a plant.  It's kind of a slow motion Rocky-like flight (as in Rocky & Bullwinkle, not "Yo, Adrienne").  And they are amazing colors.

Michael even has a gecko buddy who hangs out in his office with him.  He comes up on the top of the futon and sits there contentedly for hours at a time, overseeing Michael's daily work. 

Then one day... I saw this side-walker on the lanai'i.  Definitely not a gecko.  Something from Gulliver's Travels' version of the island in Lost...

Sure, he may look like your run-of-the-mill lizard thing here.  But I'm telling you... his locomotion was very disturbing.  He hitched and giddy-upped in a sideways, zombie-like step & drag.  Creepy.

The question is - are Side-Walkers our friends?