Plans

Things had been getting a little slow here, but it's starting to pick up now. Today I caught another big Green Turtle and did all of the measurements, DNA sampling, and tagging myself. Last Saturday there was a big parade and street party for the start of the whale season (and, more importantly I suspect, tourist season), and more and more gringos have been trickling in every day. And this Saturday I get to go back to the Island with Angelo and Sandra, and this time we'll be accompanied by a grad student from South Carolina who's studying the birds there. I get to learn how to capture and band them so I can teach more volunteers how to do the same. I'm really excited to go back, and even more excited for my plans afterward.

I talked to Gabi today about taking a week-long vacation to go do some more traveling, and she's working on getting me a sort of volunteer swap with another organization. We still have to make some calls to see where there will be a spot open, but it sounds like there are three options. One of them would be tracking bears in the cloud forest on the slopes of the mountains, and another is a science station in the middle of the Amazon! I haven't really heard what the third one would be, but I think it's also in the cloud forest.

I don't really have much more to report right now until I find out about the volunteering, but I'm sure you must have questions about things I haven't written about yet, so I'll get back online tomorrow night before I leave to give another update.