• Welcome
  • My school
  • Famous Landmarks
  • Happy Australia Day!
  • Swim at your own risk!
  • Where the forest meets the sea
  • A Whole New World!
  • BATS!
  • 3 days at sea
  • Snorkeling the Whitsunday's
  • Attack of the Batfish
  • Whitehaven
  • Koalas, koalas, koalas
  • Mountains and Forests
  • Sand Island
  • Little critters! Eek!

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Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes are everywhere in Cairns, Queensland. The picture to the left is a stuffed Fruit Bat at the Australian Museum.

Right next to our hotel there was a large park filled with Fig Trees where the bats would roost. All day they would fan themselves from the heat, sleep and get in a scuffle with a neighbouring bat over the limited space!

At dusk, the skies would come alive with the bats circling the skies... now it was pretty amazing but I will say... when you have a bird flying over your head what do you worry about it doing on your head? ...Imagine THOUSANDS of bats!





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