Marcia (Mrs. Pete) wrote:Eewwwwwww, Kirk...those bats. They totally creep me out.
Though they are kind of creepy, I've read that one bat can eat over 1000 mosquitoes in one hour, so conceivably those 3 buggers could alone make a difference on how miserable someone could be on any given day, bug-bite wise!
When you find yourself in a hole.... quit digging.
SJ, that doesn't apply here, since Lameshure Bay is certainly not getting over-developed--that's the only place the deer used to be. It's possible that people were hunting them more than we might have thought in the 20th century--the VI government made hunting illegal late in the century, not to protect the deer, but to protect people from rifle fire as the islands' human population increased.
Caneel is one place you can always see mongoose--it's invasive animal central in these post-Rockefeller days.
By the way, Mark R, that's the Hawksnest Point trail, which Caneel named Mary's Trail in memory of Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller, who was indeed very fond of the trail---not to be confused with Mary's Point, a few miles east!
Cid I have no idea what the bird is, PMK? Hugo? how about you? He was about the size of a crow and was hanging out in the playground near the NP visitor center.
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