Child of the Planet

Twas a very hot day and I scored a sunburn despite the posh Nivea sunscreen lol While looking for a coffee, I discovered a stall selling ‘non colonialist’ coffee and chocolate. www.mayancoffee.com.au Great coffee (I went back for a second later in the afternoon) All the staff looked like they were volunteers, and I bought a bag of chocolate coated coffee beans with a hint of cinnamon and chilli. They were canvassing for volunteers to travel to Guatemala to teach English and suchlike. Boy the French must be pissed that English and Spanish became the international languages.

Over the summer months there will be many festivals. Some will be free, and others will cost (usually and arm and a leg.) I like the free ones. I think it has something to do with my negative reaction to 'over professionalism' in society these days. First up, a couple of videos of musicians that played at the Surry Hills street festival that was held a couple of weeks back.

LINKS back-to-whales whale-holiday-part-three more-of-whale-holiday http://www.oceania.org.au

Daily Operational Schedule: (Subject to weather and operational factors) • 0600-0630 Breakfast • 0630 Anchor up and underway • 0630-1200 Humpback research • 1200-1230 Environmental readings • 1230-1330 Lunch break • 1330-1630 Humpback research • 1630-1830 Photo-id archiving, matching and data entry • 1700 Anchor down • 1830-1930 Dinner • 1930-2030 Evening activities.  I’ve recently been in email contact with the Oceania guys and they’re having an amazing season of data collection, and general awe and wonderment. Such a shame that with Humpbacks back on the menu, that there may be a few less jumping about in the bay next year. After dinner, we're all a bit exhausted from the day’s activities so we sat around in the cabin and listened to a prepared talk by Wally, or we watched a video documentary with a theme applicable to our mission. I was sleeping out doors in a swag rolled out on the bow of the boat. The dew was really heavy and the water ran off the oiled can...