It's a dry and sunny Sunday afternoon here. Simon and I have just come back from a lovely little walk up to the Windmill and investigating a new road that appeared which neither of us had been down, so that was interesting.
The last couple of days we've had torrential rain, thunder and lightning, I've still been out cycling as it was cool and have enjoyed the empty roads :-D
The week was busy, starting with the arduous job of cleaning, measuring and taking photo's of all of out 'Adopt a Coral' corals and then updating the data & website. It's a lot of hard work that we have to on a quarterly basis both in / out of the water. We've over 100 corals to upkeep, so it's take some time. A great job for my Intern to help out with. He can truly see the hard work and regular maintenance that goes into our 'Adopt a Coral' program. This was the first time that we hadn't forgotten/missed any photo's/measurements of corals. Usually I've forget a couple LOL
Diving in this monsoon, has it's bonuses. You're going to get wet anyway, so it's a good time to get those underwater jobs done. We've tidied our artificial dive site by consolidating all the rubble under the domes. This in turn provides a nice little habitat for all the small fish and invertebrates. We've cleaned all of our coral nurseries that were getting overgrown with ascidians, algae and sponge. We're going to, when it's not raining, make some new structures and deploy them ready for when we get the OK from the DMCR. Also on the agenda we are going to move some of our Giant Clams that are have been in cages for the last 18 months, onto the natural reef and also select an area of reef in need of rehabilitation and start some simple research on coral transplants. Lots to get on with, as well as teaching.
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| Rubble Consolidation |
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| Cleaning tunicates off the domes |
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| Tim cleaning our nursery trays |
This morning Simon was up early making a lovely looking pie and pitta bread ..he's so talented. He cooks and I clean up the mess :-D I did buy some banana's, so I think it's time for me to bake a banana loaf :-D
LOVE TO ALL
XOXOXOX
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