April 21 Biosphere Expeditions Diary
21 April Team 2 arrived and we spent our first (half) day at sea. Five minutes out we encountered a pod of common dolphins, and five minutes after that, five bottlenose…
Read MoreApril 16 Biosphere Expeditions Diary
16 April Monday the sun smiled on us as we went in search of the baleen whales that our vigia (lookout) had spotted, and we were rewarded with three fin…
Read MoreApril 13 Biosphere Expeditions Diary Entry
13 April With wind from the east on Saturday, the swell was large. We all bundled up into our Buffs and waterproofs and braced ourselves for it. As we crashed…
Read MoreApril 11 Biosphere Diary Entry
Wednesday we had good weather for our first full day at sea. The lookouts told us there were sperm whales to the north of Faial, and so that’s where we…
Read MoreFirst Day at Sea – April 9 (Diary Entry)
9 April Team 1 arrived last week, and our first day at sea we were quite successful even though the first day is only a half day. We caught…
Read MoreAzores: 2014
Hello Everyone, I had a quiet couple of months in California setting up our new base camp., and now I am off traveling again. I arrived in the Azores April…
Read MoreKrazy for Kudu
Before coming to Namibia I’d never seen (and actually never even heard of) a kudu. Here’s a picture of a female at a water hole: And here is another…
Read MoreMy morning “commute”
This morning I told Vera that I would check the box traps at Frankposten and Bergposten…so I made my tea, climbed into the Landcruiser, and took off across the farm….
Read MoreField scientist Vera Menges in action on a camera trap in Namibia
Here’s a link to a short video featuring Vera, our scientist in Namibia (who is also my working partner for all the Biosphere Expeditions here in Africa). Here she explains…
Read MoreDreaming of Africa
Remember I said I’d be making a home somewhere else for a while? Well, I’ve long dreamed of going to Africa…a wild continent full of exotic animals I’ve only previously…
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