For day three we had a capture spot all picked out for the evening so we went with Amanda for our first look at Ross University and to attend a visiting scholar's talk on monkey depredation. Doesn't matter where you are - something wants your food! The rain was crazy that day so we postponed the campus tour and went into town to get a driver's license for Jason - more on crazy drivers another time - and ate lunch in downtown Bassetterre where I discovered conch fritters - yummy! We then dodged the rain back to the car and headed off for picking up our rental and off to bats! The evening scheduled bat hunt was at an old sugar plantation manor up on the top of a place called Monkey Hill, with beautiful old landscaping and lots of old run down outbuildings with fruit bats hanging out in the rafters. It was a great location for batting in the rain - we were able to set up a net in an old building, and our table for processing in the old kitchen across the courtyard. And there was bat catching success which made everyone happy. Several Jamaican fruit bats made our acquaintance that night and flew away with little black 'I was a research subject' marks on their heads.
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