This week went pretty smoothly. We did a lot of bird and nest counting and marking. We're still enjoying our new shipment of fresh vegetables. The weather has been a little windy and the ocean too rough to get out to the other islands recently, but we hope to get out to make sure everything is ok on the rest of the atoll as soon as we can. So this week was a good week for enjoying the fresh air and ocean view.
I thought I had posted a picture of actually landing on Tern island. Apparently I didn't. You can see a part of the pilots helment in case a bird comes through the windsheild.
The sooty terns are coming back by the thousands. There are big clouds of them above the island, and they are getting really loud. You can see why the pilots wear helmets.
A gray-backed tern is sitting on a rock. There's only a few of these around. They look the same as the sooty terns except what's gray on this bird is black on a sooty tern.
MMMM, fish and squid oil! This is a common sight around the island.
The frigatebirds are almost always puffed up now so they add a lot of color to the island.
This is what the kitchen looks like. This was a spaghetti night.
2 comments:
The kitchen looks pretty tidy, was this before or after the spaghetti?
This was before. We like to keep it fairly clean, but what we miss gets taken care of by the ants and roaches.
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