Today was our first day of real training, though I suppose from our schedule you wouldn't actually know that we were training. The whole intern crew had a pow-wow with Maureen, Jeff and Brett this morning to go over general house and conservancy rules. But then the rest of the morning and early afternoon we took a tour of BHIC facilities, the island and parts of the beach. To hold everybody we took a caravan of four golf carts and we made it to the UPS shed, the mail box, the recycle drop off and various other intern chore related spots. By about 4 we were all done so I was able to walk on the beach for a bit before dinner.
Some of the crew are in the midst of planning an elaborate two week dinner schedule for us. I definitely enjoy eating and hanging out with everybody (tonight a couple interns grilled), but I think they might regret the decision when they begin to realize the extent of my cooking skills. To those of you who followed my blogs from past summers, think smoke alarm without a battery....
Tomorrow we will continue with training, but the highlight of the day will most definitely be the potluck dinner with all the staff, board members and nest monitors. It will be nice to eat someone else's cooking and meet the conservancy's extensive volunteer base.
So far there have been three false crawls, one of which may have been an Atlantic Green sea turtle. Three more people are going out for a morning patrol tomorrow and then tomorrow night all of the sea turtles interns will spend a "half-night" (9 to midnight) on walking patrol. Fortunately the rain has stopped, but the weather is still cold and cloudy with a vicious wind, so walking the beach after dark will be an adventure.
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Sounds like you are settling in just fine. Liking the blog entries. Keep it up!
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