Day 22 - Welcome Rock Hike And Night Survey
Today I had an adventure 🙂. At 12pm Poppy and I headed to hike welcome rock while the others had their training day. Tom gave us instructions of how to find the trail but we knew we were going to get lost without him their. We followed where he said to go and eventually found a trail but every time we followed a trail it seemed to stop randomly so we kept going back and forth trying to hike up. Eventually we ended up going a bit off track because none of the trails seemed to lead anywhere so we began hiking on our own route through the trees and climbing up rocks. It was an exciting expedition, but we were quite lost. We used a maps app that works off line that said we were 5 mins from the top and used it to guide us more left as we continued to scale the side. I even saw wild air plants which were teeny like the ones I have at home and some hugee. Eventually after 2 ours from leaving the house we made it to the top! The view was amazing; we stayed for an hour. Whilst we were up there we saw a group of American tourist arrive from the normal route and we followed them down what very quickly became a road. We walked the road home and it took us 30mins from the top of welcome rock to the house! It was an exciting adventure though.
When we got back Tom had made Vegetable lasagna with garlic bread and salad which was so yummy. He also made a rice pudding cake thing in the oven with cinnamon using left over rice but I think it was meant to be made with pudding rice. Kate brought over some rum fruit cake she’d made as well.
At 19:40 Steph and I headed out on Night Survey picking up sharka on the way and meeting Carter there. I went on the first run with Steph and Carter to release lots of hatchlings. I think went on the second run with Sharka and helped a few more to the sea. I didn’t see any adults until 3am when we found a female digging a nest in the sargassum. We had to relocate her eggs as they were too close to the sea. As this was happening we saw another female emerging but as we relocated the eggs we tried to find her after but she hadn’t nested she had a false crawl. In the morning we all went and raked and measured the nests.
When we got back Tom had made Vegetable lasagna with garlic bread and salad which was so yummy. He also made a rice pudding cake thing in the oven with cinnamon using left over rice but I think it was meant to be made with pudding rice. Kate brought over some rum fruit cake she’d made as well.
At 19:40 Steph and I headed out on Night Survey picking up sharka on the way and meeting Carter there. I went on the first run with Steph and Carter to release lots of hatchlings. I think went on the second run with Sharka and helped a few more to the sea. I didn’t see any adults until 3am when we found a female digging a nest in the sargassum. We had to relocate her eggs as they were too close to the sea. As this was happening we saw another female emerging but as we relocated the eggs we tried to find her after but she hadn’t nested she had a false crawl. In the morning we all went and raked and measured the nests.
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