Tag: conservation holiday with marine mammals

Yesterday we arrived at Tobermory on Mull and we have brought the rain with us! Stuart the skipper tells us it has been glorious weather for the last week, but it will now be unsettled for a few days. Saturday is forecast to be the worst with high winds, so Stuart has planned a route that will take us into a sheltered loch to hide from the worst of it; better weather is forecast after the weekend..

Preparation: The research yacht is all fuelled up and the crew have been busy loading on all our food for the expedition – as you can see below

All ready for group 1!

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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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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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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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