Tag: travel
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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…
The Whole Wide World 