Bats and Boxing Day - Wednesday, December 26

It's Boxing Day here in Australia.  I offer Skittle Homework to any second grader who can tell me in January what Boxing Day is!  We are up early and back on the day boat for another day of diving.  Today we're asked if we'd dive with a woman, Libby, who needs a dive buddy.  We agree, and it's a really great thing that we do.  Libby is from Cairns and knows these reefs like the back of her hand.  She leads our dives and shows us amazing corals and our first sighting of Clownfish in their anemone!  She is taking pictures while we're underwater and promises to send them to us.  Later in the day we're walking through Cairns running some errands, and we hear screeching up in the trees.  At first we think it's birds but on closer inspection we see BATS!  Hundreds of them hanging upside down getting ready for the evening.  They are huge!  I'm pretty sure they're fruit bats (flying foxes).  When they fly they look more like birds because of their wingspan.  Cool!