Category: The Third In-Between
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P.S. More crabs!
As soon as I posted the last entry about crabs, I went to socials to post photos of said crabs. As I was looking through recent photos on my phone, I realized I’d neglected the crabbiest bit about the crabs on Palmyra Atoll…that’s Crab Town! Crab Town One of my first field trips on station…
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Crabs!
This post is dedicated to the crabs of Palmyra Atoll…and my ice friend, Ben Goldberg, who LOVES crabs. They are everywhere here, crabs, not Bens. Fiddlers, Hermits, Coconut; all sorts and all sizes and they have the right of way on station. People fall off of their bikes to avoid them. I am not exaggerating…
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Rainy Atoll Arrival
Please.slow.down.time. Agh! It’s been two weeks since my last post. My goal is to make weekly posts, but it’s no easy feat. I thought writing would be a rainy day activity, but the rain has been mostly at night, so that doesn’t work! Today marks a month since I arrived in paradise. A whole month…
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Plane Day!
Who needs sleep? For my final night of climate controlled sleep for the next three-and-a-half months, I barely slept. To be expected-adventure awaits! The program manager, Matt, picked my new cohort, Marsha, and I up at 7AM. I was running on straight adrenaline…and coffee. First we stopped at The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) storage unit, where…
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Beginning of the Third In-between
Christchurch to Honolulu I left Christchurch and two flights and eighteen-hours later I arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii. One great flight-Christchurch to Sydney where I had the aisle emergency exit seat with an empty seat next to me, coveted. The nine hours from Sydney to Honolulu was a yucky flight though. When I picked my (aisle)…
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Winter’s End & Straight Into Summer!
Hi Friends! I’m writing from my hotel room in Christchurch-I’m a lucky gal to be here too! WinFly Flights Let me start by saying that trying to land a plane in Antarctica in August is one of the worst times to try. It’s the tail end of winter and things are warming up, which means…
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One Hundredth Day of Darkness
This entry was originally titled Twenty-Eight Days To Go and began: Twenty-eight days. Not many in comparison to the 153 I’ve been here for. But, now it’s eighteen days to go and I’ve been here for 163. That’s how time works. It’s also our hundredth day without the sun this season, but she’s a coming!…
The Whole Wide World 