In the days when the nitrates from bird-droppings were worth big money, Jarvis was an important place for guano hunters.
When and if all the guano is mined in ten years or so, says Ruben, "we'll simply offer tourists the only tram ride across the greatest hole on earth.
On Peru's rainless, guano (dung)covered Chincha Islands, Director Carlos Llosa Belaunde of the semi-official Compaia Administradora del Guano fondly examined a guano sample.
First cycle of La Jolla Cove odor abatement begins Workers were busy Monday morning spraying the rocks above La Jolla Cove with a microbial foam city officials believe will digest years of bird guano on the rocks, eliminating a stench that has nauseated Village residents and visitors for more than a year and a half.
June 17, 2013 - La Jolla Light
Hale Irwin in Independent Online The word went around the golf course in, like, five seconds, and everybody knew about it,Irwin recalled. "I think that's when everybody thought, 'Uh-oh, we're in deep guano now.'"
Alexander Haig in Globe and Mail - As for his metaphors, at the 1988 Republican convention, Mr. Haig told delegates that the Democratic Party was "blind as a bat : hanging upside down in dark, damp caves up to its navel in guano." "The curious rule was first introduced in...