Sunday, January 30, 2011

Night time visitors


We have occasionally had bats fly around the cockpit and in the early evening they can be seen catching insect in the darkening sky. There are many bats around here and the fruit  bat is always out to find an easy meal. (There’s also the vampire bat, but that is found on the mainland of South America. They can be a problem as they are known to carry rabies.) Now bats are cute little fellows and sadly dying out in many parts of the world. Here they seem happy and brave enough to search through the boat for food. Our fruit is store in a container to keep them out, but last night we left a banana in the galley. With the hatch closed and netting on the open ports it is a mystery how on earth it got in, but when I got up to close ports at 4am because of a rainstorm there it was cruising around the boat. After chasing it to the front cabin we managed to get some photos of it.

 





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