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From our marine volunteer holiday with basking sharks, whales and dolphins (including orcas) in Scotland (http://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/scotland)

Weather:

18 deg C, overcast during the day, positively beautiful in the evening, no rain! Forecast not so good – see http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635754. Looks like we’ll be feeding the fish with lots of wind an wave action. And the midges are flying high.

Preparation:

The boat is coming in from a research outing as we speak. This year’s first basking sharks sighted.

Video update:

See you Wednesday, och aye – innit?

 

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Update from our marine volunteer holiday with basking sharks, whales and dolphins (including orcas) in Scotland (http://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/scotland)

Here’s now Kate’s welcome.

As you can tell, Kate’s not too comfortable in front of the camera, so we have also added a video of someone who is VERY comfortable, in fact could probably not survive for longer than 48 seconds without a camera lens being pointed at them, to the blog.

You must watch this extremely interesting video of utter relevance to the future of our planet until the end and expect to be tested during the expedition. Or you could watch http://youtu.be/pGifZhozLVA and really learn something.

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From our marine volunteer holiday with basking sharks, whales and dolphins (including orcas) in Scotland (http://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/scotland)

4 June

Hello everyone and welcome to the Scotland diary. This is just a quick prologue with a video message from the big cheese below

More admin and an emergency mobile phone number in the next diary entry, which will hopefully also contain a message from your expedition leader Kate.

We hope your preparations are going well and we look forward to seeing you in Scotland, laddies and lassies!

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