August 8, 2015:  Olompali State Park Bat Night with Ruah in Navato, California

The park service didn't serve s'mores as advertised, but we had sooo much fun learning about bats and making bat crafts!  (Kevin loved his bat mask.)  I loved the animation of dancing bats singing about, "Echo, echo, echo-lloooo-cuuuuu-tion..."  Fascinating history to this park, too.  Miwoks lived there 6000 years ago, then it was a 19th century estate, then a commune where the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship baked bread that was sold in a co-op in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco (obviously, in the '60s).

(Somewhere back in 2013 I have a post that shows all this...)

Bat night, though --- Ruah and I made a splash because we got all decked out and Goth-y while everyone else was dressed more "REI."  The median age for this event was about--- seven.   Sometimes, ya gotta take your "inner child" out to play!!!!    ;)

Pictured is the bat educator.  She rehabilitates injured bats.  Those bats star in her demos.