Sitting under a small sun umbrella with a metal scope, metal tripod, metal binoculars and camera watching the birds suddenly felt quite vulnerable. We decided to make a run for it to the shelter of a very large macrocarpa tree not too far away.. I then imagined that tomorrows news would relate the story of two people crushed by a very large macrocarpa tree
Later DOC phoned to say they were coming to help bury a dolphin that had been washed up about a kilometre up the beach and so we headed there and later the others joined us after we had by then dug a reasonable sized pit in the sand above the high tide mark. DNA samples were taken and measurements were made. A Karakia, a Maori prayer, was conducted before we buried this unfortunate Common Dolphin
More to follow...……………..