One Day In Sri Lanka

You may think that is fruit hanging in those trees but it’s not!! I have never seen such large bats in my life!! It’s not a bit of wonder they call these things flying foxes!! They are the colour of a fox and almost as big!

I spent most of my time marvelling at the sight of them hanging in trees….

Flying around in daylight!!

“Pssst”

I thought I heard something from the bushes but I was totally engrossed in shooting video and capturing photos of these critters to take any notice….

“Pssst!”, it came again a few seconds later… I just ignored it….

“Hey! Over here!” The perfect english had me curious so I looked up from my camera and peered into the bushes where the voice was coming from. There, a blue clad worker was playing with a bat…

“Oh that is GROSS!!” I said out loud!! A little embarassed how quickly I had reverted to ’school girl fears’ and a school-girl phrase….
“Take a picture!” the man said with a beckoning mention.

Still disgusted by being so close to the creature, I said to the guy, “No! – shouldn’t you be working?!” and started to walk away hoping the creepy feeling of the hanging rodent would leave me but the guy followed along from the bushes…

“It’s okay, he won’t hurt – take a picture!” – Now, I was starting to get annoyed. I was quite content taking photos of the bats in the trees, not from some guy’s stick but in order to get him off my back, I snapped a shot….

I should have known – once the click was sounded – the guy was begging me to pay him for the picture….ugh.

The co-worker in the background sure looks like he just wants his partner to get working…while the bat displayer seems to be checking out for his boss. Later on, in the day, I saw a man in a shirt and tie talking to the guy, arms flailing, fingers pointing – moments later, it was down to work for the bat boy in blue.

Those bats are noisy- too!! Watch this short video (2:16) I created for proof…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFKBE4muKBs with a park cleaner providing the sweeping background music.