A final push and it was all over. 20th October saw the last head emerge from the last egg of 2003. A record-breaking total of eighty-four brand new baby Blue Iguanas alive and well. An opportunity for Fred to breathe a sigh of relief, and recover some of his kitchen from beneath the incubators and associated paraphernalia.

A team of volunteers put some finishing touches to four new Iguana breeding pens over two weekends in May. Descending on the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park with brushes and rollers in hand, the group dispatched several buckets of “lunar green” paint onto the dull grey concrete walls.