Looking back at Midway
Back from Midway Atoll now. These immersive experiences are always intense but wonderful. Since it was my second trip to Midway, I was prepared for most of what we saw – 500,000 albatross, 25 endangered monk seals, endangered Laysan ducks and slowing crumbling infrastructure from 40 years of Navy presence on the Atoll. But [...]
Midway Atoll Photos
I am posting some of the many photos taken on Midway in the past 4 days. We have been engaged in three areas: albatross conservation, Hawaiian monk seal counts and marine debris cleanup. See what you think. Tracy getting up close to ID a monk seal on West Beach. Most monk seals are tagged but [...]
Midway Atoll, 177.4 West, 28.5 North
MIdway Atoll is 1200 miles NW of Honolulu, HI. Part of the new Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Midway atoll is composed of three islands, the largest being 1100 acre in size, famous for the critical battle in WWI, home to over 1,000,000 albatross and my home for 10 days this month. I am here with a [...]
Blog repaired and back online…
We had our blog hacked by someone with a web address in Russia a couple weeks ago. We had to rebuild it and are still working to get the photos and video links reestablished. Hopefully we will get everything back to the way it was. In the meantime 2009 has gone and 2010 arrived. And [...]
Rio Parana Conservation Video
We are working on a conservation video from our latest expedition to the Rio Parana in Northern Argentina. This massive river is second in size the the Amazon River in South America and is home of the national fish of Argentina: the Golden Dorado. The river is also home to all the forces that slowly [...]
What is a wild salmon?
So what is a wild salmon? Is it a) a salmon that was hatched in its native stream b) hatched and raised in a man-made hatchery and stocked in a stream or c) hatched in a hatchery, raised in a pen and harvested for market? Most people in the industry consider a wild salmon to [...]
Birds got it made…
Part of preparing for Patagonia has been to do some background work on the different places we will go. I was checking into the Valdez Pennisula and found a link that lead me to Birdlife International. This is a non-profit with an operating budget of around $20M a year and they have an incredible website. [...]
Human Impacts on Midway
We started the day jumping in to do community service on Midway Atoll. That means sorting the contents of the recycle bins… This is two years worth of 60 people’s recycling… beer bottles, liquor bottles (Jack seems to be a favorite), wine and Asian cooking sauces (the Chef is from Thailand). We spend a couple [...]
