It’s almost midnight, and I’ve ventured out of our bothy-style islet home into the black of night. It’s now new moon, which some hours before descended behind the now familiar hills of Graciosa to the west. The night sky is a spectacular canvas peppered with thousands of bright stars - the Milky Way stretching north-west [...]
It’s now been three weeks since I arrived on Praia Islet, which is long enough to be surprised by the novelty of a still and quiet morning; not dominated by the incessant background thundering either of wind or an Atlantic swell. Awakening in the tent today, it was odd being able to hear one of [...]
It’s shortly after dawn. I’m stood near the harbour of Praia Islet, looking south to the distinctive silhouette of Baixo island on the horizon, although it’s only just visible through the fine sea spray filling the air. . The wind is strong from the north. I’m sheltered behind swaying tamarisk trees but feel dwarfed even [...]
Since arriving on Praia just over ten days ago now, time has whistled by in a blurr of activity, and I’ve slowly been settling into islet life and the day-to-day routines of the research work and various other tasks necessitated living on an island - a pretty small one at that! More or less everything [...]
It’s an hour after darkness, the sky muted in dark greys on this overcast evening. There’s not a breath of wind, and yet the roaring sound of the Atlantic swell crashing on the base of the cliffs 15 metres below us would have you think otherwise. Above the sound of the crashing surf, a chorus [...]
This winter I am going to be based on a small islet off the Azorean archipelago in the middle of the north Atlantic, assisting a friend with some research work that focusses on the island's breeding petrel species. After an embarrassingly long lapse in updates here on my blog, I thought I'd try to make [...]
After what seems like weeks of unsettled weather conditions, we've at last been able to enjoy a few days of calmer winds and the odd warm ray of sunshine. The mixture of southerly and easterly airflows has also enabled a slow but assured movement of spring migrants to pass through the island, although numbers are [...]
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