Day 3 We are feeling pretty seasick in the morning so we didn’t t help with the measurements After lunch we felt better. Nico was giving Dan a haircut while the wind was light, the crew can do anything! Being on Tara has a magical feeling to it. You can feel the...
It’s late at night when Annie and I arrive at the port of Suva, we look around and there are a lot of container boats, then we see her, Tara! Our excitement grows as we get closer, the captain, Samuel, is waiting for us. He shows us our cabin and the basics on...
After two days of being confined to the rat’s nest by the rain, Jane, Bokyong and I were brimming with excitement when Jo and Rua returned bringing Brook Mells, Jo’s partner, with them on the Friday night and Dan the morning after. By mid-morning the rain had cleared...
By the Monday, Jo and Rua had joined us up at the rat’s nest and we had finished our first round of burrow checks. Jo and Rua who had been searching other areas of the island had found a number of new burrows in previously unexplored locations. Lots of the burrows we...
Another awesome part of our trip was the advocacy that was naturally a part of the work we did. During our normal day to day work, we had a lot of people pass us along the tracks that would stop to see what we were doing. These ranged from tourists from Europe, to...
