Originally Posted by
wipekitty
I'm also a big fan of the bridge! It's definitely made it easier to get from my neighborhood up to Onalaska. I'm fine using the marsh trails and cutting through the industrial area this time of year. But in the summer, I like to avoid the trails during the day, because there's lots of people and it can be hard to navigate the trailer, and at night, because of all the lil' froggies and flying critters.
I got clocked by a bat one late summer evening riding through the marsh trail with a trailer of stuff from Home Depot. The bat flew straight into my chest and I had to go to Urgent Care to make sure I didn't need a rabies shot.
That bridge is a "bridge" compared to the wooden ones that were train bridges. There's that one that's narrow and it seems like every time I'm about to go over it somebody is coming from the opposite direction and I have to wait.
I hate it when the marsh trails have all of the little frogs on them at night because I don't want to run over them.
There are really fewer bats here than there used to be. The neighborhood you live in used to have bats swooping all summer because there were so many big houses and tall trees and there would be night hawks as well. As a kid my house on the hill routinely would get bats in the house and my mother would be wearing my football helmet and swinging a broom at them, usually with little effect other than a broke lamp. There were once lots of old warehouses in the downtown area and old buildings there where the bats would roost that there would commonly be bats swooping on Main St. at night. Occasionally I might see a bat now on the marsh trails, but not often.