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March Highlights - Ascension 2023

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March has seen the continuation of hot weather (Mid-thirties most days), but also severe weather warnings, and has been super busy with some exciting work! I’ve also enjoyed continuing with weekly Kung-Fu and Anna and I have also started to go to weekly Zumba meetings at Two Boats Club on Tuesdays. I also received a Covid-19 SpikeVax Bivalent Booster Vaccine at the end of the month and the 5th March also marked 4 months since I arrived on Ascension and officially 1/3rd of the way through my contract. My highlight of the month was probably satellite tagging my first turtle! But I’ve also seen lots of hatchlings, even a couple of mass hatches which were pretty amazing to witness, and we reached the peak of the nesting season with 228 Nests on Long beach in one night. Abi also celebrated her 36th Birthday on the 30th with a BBQ and firepit at Pierhead beach on the 31st which was a really nice, chilled evening.  Here are some of the other things that happened on Ascension in M