Dedicated readers will remember the two
incident where a stray cat has come aboard Malua during the night.
The one in Greece the cat was unknowingly shut into the aft cabin for
three days and it then escaped when I went shore on a completely
different island. The other was in France when I caught the cat in
the cabin one night. http://malua.blogspot.com/2011/10/cats-in-cabin.html
Well last night I woke because
something was wrong and moving in the cabin. Being anchored some
distance from the shore I was sure it was not a cat. I got up and in
the half light of the moon thought I saw something jump off the
saloon table and move first towards the window then in a flash out
the companionway. I immediately knew we had been invaded by a bat –
birds cant see in the night.
While we were having drinks the
previous evening I noticed a bat fly out of the trees along the edge
of the high cliffs overlooking the anchorage and commented how large
that particular one was much like the fruit bats of Australia.
The following morning it was obvious
that the bat had come to eat the ripe guavas we had purchased while
in St Vincent. It is much easier to wait for a yacht than fly the 28
nm to the next island.
Was it a magical moment on Malua
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