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Galapagos Diary!
My diary is finally typed and uploaded. I've put it all on the relevant dates as it was too big to put in one or two big posts.
I should warn you it is very long, but broken down day by day so can be read a little at a time.
So there you go.
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Rothamsted!
So, I've just got hold of some internets of my own (via wireless network in my hall- currently waiting on ICT to set me up, so our post-doc is logging me on with his account in the office which is fine for useful stuff but probably not great to make loads of non-work sites appear on his browsing history even if I would only be using them at ( Read more... ) -
My latest long-overdue post
OK, so the plan was, get back from Ecuador, start typing up the sharable parts of my diary, upload them to journal, then get on with journal as normal ( Read more... ) -
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After a fitful sleep- lots of dreaming, waking and struggling to sleep again- I woke with a jump at 6:02 (what happened to the alarm?), threw on my clothes and went to my taxi ( Read more... ) -
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After a leisurely breakfast and a look at my guide book, I went off to find la Mercada Artesanal la Mariscal, the craft market- there were lots of lovely things but I didn’t have much cash left so I didn’t stay long as it wasn’t fair on the stallholders, all dressed in traditional clothes and giving friendly greetings, to browse without buying ( Read more... ) -
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Up before dawn to get our boat across to Baltra. We were on the boat in time for sunrise, but it was cloudy so it was more a case of light gradually showing through the clouds than anything more colourful. A few sealions were already up, playing and chasing and leaping in the sea, while the rest slept on the beaches. We packed onto the boat and ( Read more... ) -
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Woke up regretting the last few rums the night before. Missed breakfast then made some rather feeble attempts at clearing mora before stopping to go and pack. Then in the afternoon, everyone who wasn’t sleeping or packing was sent to the nursery for a couple more hours, but we finished early for a football game. I wandered up to the football pitch ( Read more... ) -
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Another morning in the nursery, then at lunchtime I took advantage of the sunshine to take some photographs around the reserve, before going back to the nursery in the afternoon.
Then was my last evening on the reserve. First we had a fire, and sat around talking and playing music. Then we went to the bar, and rather a lot of rum was flowing- oops. -
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Ventured out reasonably early into something of a ghost town, with most people sleeping in from the night before, so went to the Mockingbird to wait for them with brunch and internet. Sure enough, as the other volunteers surfaced, they appeared there. Then I went down to the beach, just to sit for a while and paddle a bit and watch the sea lions ( Read more... )
