July 2023 Ascension Highlights
It’s already August! July flew by quicker than any other month here on Ascension! With no more turtle work for the three of us to do our schedule has been more varied and the weeks have absolutely flown by. Some highlights of the month have included the first Whale sightings (21st July) of the season, helping with a variety of different teams and having some visiting oceanographers from Plymouth University for a week (7th July). July has also seen the continuation of Kung-Fu, Zumba and Volleyball (we’ve moved to indoors and it’s been a game changer) and saw the end of Sewing bee for the year (26th July). Here are the rest of my month’s highlights: On the 1st of July Anna, Abi and I went and helped out Tiff, Marcos, Lorna and Dee with Pierhead sampling again; weighing, measuring and taking samples from the catches from that day – we saw a lot of Yellow Fin Tuna and some Wahoo with the largest Tuna weighing in at 68.8Kg. Then in the afternoon we headed to the US base for the 4th of July