Monday, September 29, 2008

Freakin' Awesome

Okay, we have gone twice before to see these bats. They live under the Congress Ave. Bridge–this huge bridge in the middle of downtown. It hosts a colony of 1.5 million "Mexican free-tailed bats," the largest urban bat colony in North America. It is a huge tourist attraction. You can take a bat cruise on the lake and hundreds of people line the bridge and shores every night to watch. So we have gone twice with pretty dismal results. Third time is a charm. It was amazing. It looked more like swarms of bees than bats. We got there a few minutes before they began, and watched for a full 45 minutes without them even starting to let up. You cannot imagine the sheer number of bats flowing out from this bridge. It was great...so cool. I didn't have my camera, so I stole this clip from YouTube...

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