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HOLY BATBOAT, BATMAN!

Are you a clever bean and attending the first of the Keystone Solutions Speaker Series in Austin Texas on Monday September 26th 2011?  No?  See here for details and register immediately, you silly thing!

Now, once you’ve done that, how about a bit of a lark on Sunday September 25th with your web analytics friends?  Here’s the plan.  It involves a boat, some bats and a touch of watching.  That’s right – watching bats from a boat!

How do you get involved?  Simples!

Click on this link: http://www.capitalcruises.com/bat-watching/rates-and-times/

Click on the useful button labelled “Click here to book a bat cruise”.

Enter your name in the field labeled Party.

Indicate that you are one person by selecting “1″ (unless you are some kind of deity)

Select the date – Sunday September 25th

You will be given a time (there’s only one)*

Go ahead and book your ticket and print it out to produce on the day.  It’s only $10 – how can you go wrong?

Battastic!  You’re all set!

*NOTE:  The time given is currently 6:30pm – this is subject to change slightly based on the bats and the time of the sunset so stay alert!

OTHER NOTE:  You need to be in the general vicinity of the boat half an hour before launch.

FURTHER NOTE:  If you’re on Twitter, let’s use #measurebats  on the day in case of batmergency.

Questions?  Confusions? Bat-related trivia? Leave a comment!

 

  • Jen

    DID YOU KNOW? The Austin bats are Mexican free-tailed bats.
    DID YOU KNOW? Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to two miles high to feed or to catch tail-winds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more than 60 mph. So look sharp!
    DID YOU KNOW? Mother Mexican free-tailed bats find and nurse their own young, even in huge colonies where many millions of babies cluster at up to 500 per square foot. (They give birth in June and nurse in July in Austin. September is a fantastic month to see them!)

    This concludes JenBatFacts.

  • Jennifer Kunz

    We tried to see the bats from the bridge when we went last month, but my child needed a potty break at just the wrong moment and I missed most of the show. My husband got it on tape, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96OIE0CWhM 1.5 million bat- it was very cool to see. I’ll definitely be joining you!

  • http://www.gilliganondata.com Tim Wilson

    More site-specific bat trivia: the bats you’ll be viewing are part of the largest urban bat colony in the world (the operative word there is “urban”…but everything’s bigger in Texas, even if it takes some clever adjectival application to make it so).

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