Ideas to help young Jamaican entrepreneurs start a business.

[Nanoose]

Awhile back I seen a photo of a Jamaican cave with a lot of bats in it and I started thinking that the bat droppings would be worth a fortune if packaged and sold to BC head shops.
Today I started thinking it could make a good business for a Jamaican youth group – sort of like Junior Achievement.
Cheers and happy week end!

[Wahoo]

Guano?...I thought you said Guava!!!

[Nanoose]

I gave the bat dropping thing some thought today and at first I got a little discouraged thinking about all the rules and regulations to exporting bat fertilizer but the more I thought about it the more I thought that maybe it’s just crazy enough to work.
If properly packaged and advertised as a must for the back yard ganja grower – the yuppies in west Vancouver would pay $40 for a KG.
I just figure if a Jamaican youth group started up a business it would be a learning process for their future and put some bucks in their pockets as well.

Cheers and happy week end!

[ECO]

Harvesting it is a double edged sword. On one hand it provides an excellent fertilizer and protects the environment from the harmful stuff but on the other hand over harvesting it ruins the caves and leaves them without any bats. The guy who owns www.cockpitcountry.com is a good person to talk to about this topic.

[Wahoo]

Eco, did you go caving in the Cockpit Country on this trip? You animal, you! I have some friends who used to go spelunking in noncommercial caves on private land in Virginia and West Virginia. That's a whole different breed. I'm not sure I could bring myself to do that. I get claustrophobic in an elevator! I've been in a number of commercial caverns in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and you can't appreciate what total darkness is till you've been underground with all lights turned off--very disorienting and scary. Not to mention cockroaches and bat shyt and flesh-eating bacteria!!!

Give me a swim-up bar anyday!

[ECO]

I was in 3 or 4 caves this reach. The one in Little Bay was so big you could park a fair sized aircraft in it! The Windsor cave is another story that I can message you about off of the forum....long cave that goes for miles with an underground river.....an old slave hide out that is full of spirits....yeah better that I don't speak about it much on-line.

Also, as I knew as it was confirmed this trip, caves with bat the brown stuff that floats in the toilet are not safe for us to breathe in!

[Nanoose]

Ya - I never thought about the part of breathing in harmful gases. I am going to try and think of something safer and not so red tape complicated est.
Cheers and happy week end