The Jurassi Park Back-Up Island

Many of you might be familiar with Jurassic Park. If you remember correctly, you will remember that at the end of the movie we are reminded that there is another island that has the dinasours.. well I have found that island. It is called Bat Island, and it is in the middle of Lake Kivu.
This past weekend I was in Kibuye, one of the towns around the lake. On Saturday afternoon my group boarded a boat to take us out onto the lake.

When we left it was sunny with clouds on the distant horizon. Perfect boating weather. The boat ride took a little bit over an hour+. But we did have a bunch of the boys jump off the boat and go swimming. Once we got to bat island, we all got off the boat and watched as the boatmen tried to secure the boat...remember this I will touch on this later.
We are now on the island. We start following the boatman along a semi-marked path. Along the path we have our first encounter that makes us think Jurassic Park--big piles of poop. After we had walked only about 5 minutes the guide started to clap which caused many of the bats to come out of the trees and fly around. CRAZY. I had never seen so many bats. It was CRAZY. Sooo neat. I took lots of pictures. Granted in many of the pictures they just look like black things in the sky, but I know what they are..haha..

Now lets get to the Jurassic Park Back-Up Island part. As we all know, where bats live, obviously dinasours live too. Also, what other animal could leave such odd droppings. HAHA.
My one friend and I proceeded to create our own Jurassic Park Back-Up Island video. Not gonna lie, its pretty good. Essentially it gave everyone a good laugh.
After we had seen the bats, which really how long can you watch them fly around, 10, 15 minutes?? ..we headed back to the boat. We, as in those of my group, would like to thank a tree that our boat got caught in, if not it would have floated off..haha.. But luckily that tree was present and we were able to get back on our boat and head back. Most of the ride back was in the dark, yet it was still oddly beautiful even though one couldn't really see anything.


Note: The poop that we saw belonged to cows that live on the island, or so they say.. How do cows get to the island?? Just saying.. it could be dinasours..haha :)
Note 2: On the other side of Lake Kivu is the DRC, so I got pictures of mountains that are in the DRC, but the lake is HUGE, so the mountains are truely, and utterly in the distance.