Doing the environmental thing on your mooring

[Capey]

Just a bit of silliness here, but after waxing lyrical about my portable greenhouse, I have decided this year to give everyone something for christmas that they can use on their boat or mooring, to improve the environement of the concrete bunker we live at.

My first gift I bought yesterday on a specail at the garden centre (where I went to top up my hayfever attack) a Bat Box - how fantastic is that ?????? they had ladybird boxes, bee boxes and butterfuly boxes - I just thought the bat idea was fantastic. I will need to introduce them to the woodpeckers though.

Isn't life in this country just brilliant -back in Africa - we would have caught the bats and barbecued them. I will just stick to squirrel kebabs - more meat on them

[Breals]

Good luck with it! I love bats, they swoop all round my boat eating bugs that would otherwise get into the boat and torment me by crawling on my face at night. My Gambian friend is scared of them though lol. (I won't tell him about the snake I saw on my gang-plank this morning!)

Edited July 4, 2008 by Breals

[Ex- Member]

Aparrently most if not all species of bat are an essential ingrediant fo the perpetuation of life on earth. It is thought their demise would cause massive crop failure and insect infestation, and seriously affect the food chain that all life on earth relies on.

 

So look after them

[Capey]

Good luck with it! I love bats, they swoop all round my boat eating bugs that would otherwise get into the boat and torment me by crawling on my face at night. My Gambian friend is scared of them though lol. (I won't tell him about the snake I saw on my gang-plank this morning!)

 

 

Hmmm shouldn't see my daughters flat then, she has 3 boa's, 2 velvet gekko's and a baby python. Her specialisation in reptiles (she is doing a doctorate in Conservation). Mind you if your gambian friend is a native African then it is easier to understand as a lot of their fears are traditional rather than "rational" - if you see what I mean.

In South Africa the black people are scared of white cats, white dogs and particulary snakes.

 

I cant wait for the arrival of the bats though - so watch this space.

[Breals]

Fear of animals is probably fairly rational in a part of the world where a lot of them will kill you! I was telling him about the fox cubs I saw playing on the grass near the boat, he was nervous about that too... bless!