One of the questions in yesterday’s Guardian quiz prompted a family discussion about the Kasanka National Park in Zambia and its enormous colony of bats. Admins 1 and 2 paid a visit there in 2010, which involved getting up in the middle of the night, trekking through a swampy jungle with some armed guards and climbing rickety wooden towers to view the bats flying around. It was spectacular. Here’s another shot we took:
Anyway, in a weird coincidence the Park turned up in today’s Guardian. Apparently some company wants to open a huge commercial farm which would have a catastrophic effect on the wildlife. The paper also has a nice photo essay on the Park’s bats.
Admin1 is reading The Special Dead by Lin Anderson. Admin2 is rereading The Second Sleep by Robert Harris.
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Absolutely lovely photos. Must have been an amazing experience
Bashing through the forest in the dark, trying to avoid the pythons hunting the bats and the leopards hunting the pythons, I fell into some quicksand and had to be pulled out by the soldiers, minus my shoes and half my stick. That was an experience all right.
OMG I would have been terrified of most of that, but it’s a shame theres no photo