starsnatcher:

My favorite thing about the roadtrip on Wednesday was at around twilight. The bats came out by the hundreds. They were huge, about the size of eagles. And the flew across the sky to the other edge of the coast and came back at around dawn.

There were people out there with these huge kites with bat patterns on them. There were hooks on the kites and they’d catch bats and sell them. It was pretty…horrible. They’d catch em by the wings and they’d come down screaming. It was really depressing. They’d whack them with sticks when they landed on the beach and tie them up. They looked like puppies with huge leathery wings.

But besides that, it was gorgeous, the sky all dripping colors and peppered with bats.