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| Crown of Thorns collection. They eat the coral |
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| Clam cage that was built by Luca |
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| Bottle nursery ..will deploy & plant corals in them |
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| Quiz night |
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| Eco Intern Luca, one of the quiz masters |
Saturday, 30 November 2019
30 November 2019
17 November 2019
Crazy ole times.
Cuthberts having an emergency operation to not one but both of his arms! Seamstress Helen is on the job using both toothpicks and the biggest needle ever, she has the power to rebuild him into a stronger and better looking Cuthbert if that is possible!!
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| Soon to be the bionic Cuthbert ..Simon couldn't watch |
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| Cuthbert being operated on. |
Pictures from the weeks happenings!
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| Intern luca's first welding job. A clam cage that's now quite square |
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| Getting welding lessons from the master welder Claus |
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| Simon hard at work!! |
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| Another culinary delight by Simon |
Monday, 18 November 2019
Sunday, 3 November 2019
03 November 2019
It's Sunday and a lovely day for a walk. Si's back has been pretty bad, so we thought we'd take a leisurely walk to find a geocache at the reservoir, which we did successfully and then we ended up going miles. Boy there were some really steep parts which certainly took their tole on our knee's. I think it's the down parts that affected us most, but it's great exercise :-D
We did take a picnic, last nights pizza which was nice but we didn't eat much of it as it was too hot and there were too many flies and mozzies around.
Below are a few photo's from the walk. We were both shocked about the amount of land that has been cleared and for what I wonder!
We did take a picnic, last nights pizza which was nice but we didn't eat much of it as it was too hot and there were too many flies and mozzies around.
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| Me, tucking into my pizza ;-D |
Below are a few photo's from the walk. We were both shocked about the amount of land that has been cleared and for what I wonder!
Thursday, 31 October 2019
01 November 2019
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TOM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EWEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Hey Tom,
Hope you have an awesome day
Thinking of you and we'll have a beer in your honour
Miss you!!
Love and hugs,
Sid & Jenny
XOXOX
31st October 2019
Happy Birthday Fiona!!!!
Thinking of you and wishing you a
Very Happy Birthday!!
Love and hugs,
Jenny & Simone
XOXOXOXOXOX
Sunday, 27 October 2019
27th October 2019
We hope that everyone is well and keeping busy!
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.
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
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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