Broccolli v. Bananas. Which would YOU choose?

I just found this news item on the bbc site.....nothing to do with Gloucestershire, but a wonderful little moment!! Enjoy!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6580000/newsid_6586100/6586109.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm

For some detail on the significance of this just click on the related link, which is the same
clip with a reporters commentary and so on.

Deer Cave bats, December 2003

Last week's wonderful moments
with the starling clouds reminded me
everso much (if in a colder version)
of the experiences we had back in
the mists of time (pre-blogging, pre-digital
camera-owner) in Sarawak, Borneo.
Whilst staying at the Royal Mulu Resort we
naturally had to include a visit to Deer cave
on the itinerary....


It is a truly huge cavern........and truly very smelly,
thick with the smell of ammonia rising from the
droppings of 3-4 (?) million wrinkle-lipped bats
who spend the day hanging on its roof.....
one more over-powering experience to add to
the overall "wow" effect!


Emerging towards sunset into the ammonia free
fresh air we then awaited the spectacular exit
of the bats, first visible swirling in a dough-nut
loop just inside the cave mouth, then woooshing out
in larger and larger streams

....cork-screwing away through the sky, dodging
bat falcons, for a night of insect hunting.


A great memory!
Here is a link to someone else's account
of a trip to Mulu though whom those of us
who have been to Mulu can (as he put's it)
"vicariously relive" the whole experience:
(p.s. it even has a short movie-clip of the bats
flying out on it!!)

http://www.geographia.com/malaysia/caves.htm