Sable Island: Day 18 – 4 day delay
We sit here patiently waiting for the weather to clear for a flight. Rain and persistent fog have delayed our departure. Yesterday I visited an old tank that sits on the South Beach of the island.
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14 days on Sable Island: Day 14
This is suppose to be our last day on Sable Island for this trip. However, as often happens, the weather appears not to be cooperating with our plans. We are likely to be here through to next week, although you…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 12
We are coming to the end of our stay on Sable Island. Many of the maintenance projects are complete (a large part of doing research on Sable Island) but we still have to catch 8 seals. We only caught one…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 11
Day 11 was a little like Day 10, except we had less sun, more fog and we caught only one seal despite travelling 80 km around the island. I checked the location of the 4 seals we caught before this…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 10
Our tenth day on Sable Island was spent seal catching. The weather was a mix of sun and fog. There were lots of seals hauled out but the marked seals were difficult to find, and once found they were difficult…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 9
We woke to dark skies over Sable and they soon broke to give a heavy downpour. After a couple of hours however the rain turned to drizzle and then the fog moved in for the day. …