Bare sand island trip
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:24 am
This is a little video of last weekends trip to bare sand island. We have spent many of fruitless hours walking beaches looking for nesting or hatching turtles.
We got spoilt this time. We would have seen around 10 nest over the 2 nights and was still in bed before 10 each night.
There was a researcher (mick, champion fella) out on the island who become our own personal tour guild, answering the endless questions from the kids... (and Keri and i).
He even let the kids help him with his research, writing down sizes, checking hatched nest and documenting how many eggs hatch, how many didn’t. Collecting and of the slow hatching to release that night so the birds didn’t pick them off.
Fishing was oddly quite, but got a good mixed bag.
Seen a pod of dolphins (quite possibly were false killer wales) swim right up to the boat.
And the small island full of birds was cool too.
Was a very special weekend.
https://youtu.be/QaKaNfR8Ilw
We got spoilt this time. We would have seen around 10 nest over the 2 nights and was still in bed before 10 each night.
There was a researcher (mick, champion fella) out on the island who become our own personal tour guild, answering the endless questions from the kids... (and Keri and i).
He even let the kids help him with his research, writing down sizes, checking hatched nest and documenting how many eggs hatch, how many didn’t. Collecting and of the slow hatching to release that night so the birds didn’t pick them off.
Fishing was oddly quite, but got a good mixed bag.
Seen a pod of dolphins (quite possibly were false killer wales) swim right up to the boat.
And the small island full of birds was cool too.
Was a very special weekend.
https://youtu.be/QaKaNfR8Ilw