Hello friends! Welcome to another edition of Wake-Up Wednesday Wins…remember those? (hears an echo across the Internet…) The theme? Planet-saving awesomeness (what else?)! I’m not quite sure where February went, but here we are: three days into March. It’s a fresh month with a whole lotta opportunity for winnin’. So, let’s get down to it!…
Hi readers and welcome to the first Wednesday Wins of December! In honour of our Northern Hemisphere’s slow dirge toward darkness on the 21st, I’m filling this week’s wins with an assortment of stories that bring with them hope and light. Let’s face it: December is a hard month. Winter is a hard season. (At…
The Internet is amazing. Need proof? Have a look at this photo: OK…what’s the big deal? Last summer, while on Midway, fellow FWS volunteer Liz was walking through our usual albatross plots, checking to see who was still there. We banded a number of fledgling Laysan Albatross and continued to check their nest sites to…
Hello, blogging world! You might have noticed, upon closer inspection of this blog link, that things look a little different around here. Your eyes haven’t fooled you. Welcome to the year 2013, 7 In the Ocean! There have been a ton of changes happening in my life: personal, financial, work-related and I thought, “Can’t stop…
Hey all! Three weeks in and I’m still surprised at how fast/slow/weird the time acts here. Some days feel like they’re never going to end and other times, I’m still trying to figure out how it got to be Friday already. Every day is an adventure and brings something new! The highlight of this week…
So says Bob, the man sitting across the aisle from me in the G-2 plane we took to get to Midway a week ago yesterday. He’s right and for some reason, I don’t believe it until we’re on the tarmac…on Midway. It’s surreal: leave Honolulu at 7pm, hurdle across the ocean for 2 hours and…