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I'm back from New Quay! Have been since Friday actually but I'll tell ye of it now. It was fantastic! 5 weeks of mostly joyous sun and sea and dolphins. The work was sitting on a boat looking for dolphins (and porpoises, seals and mutherfooking-huge! jellyfish), sitting the pier for 2 hours a day looking for the same, (wo)manning the visitor centre and just generally having a fantastic time.
The caravan was great but NOT the 5 minute walk they'd promised. More like 50 but it was mostly possible to walk along the beach to and from work so that was groovy.
The other volunteers (except Sonja, bitchface) were awesome. Will miss them and hope we can keep in touch after.
Can't write about it all because there's too much and I'm lazy but here's some things that happened: I got splashed by a bow-riding dolphin calf, rescued a seagull which was named Lizzy, met a Batman, possibly saw a minke whale!, helped look after a sick pipistrelle, nearly got hit in the head with a greater horseshoe bat (got to hold one of the babies too. so cute! and big as an adult pipistrelle!), did something to James Bond that may not be legal so that's all I can say (unless you ask me later), watched more Friends than I ever thought possible (hurrah for digital!), fell off the roof of the boat and there's probably more but I forget exactly. It'll come to me. Just wanted to say a quick hi before I went for me tea. Twas fantastico though. Very much so.
www.cbmwc.org, if you're interesed. Which you should be!
Before I go, here's an example of how gross Merthyr people are. As we're moving we have a skip out the front for all the crap we're not taking. Stuff like cabinets, old bikes, a headboard and lots of bin bags full of crap. Many of which have been cut open and rummaged through. Ew! I think we should put bags of used cat litter in there. Hah!
And now for tea.
The caravan was great but NOT the 5 minute walk they'd promised. More like 50 but it was mostly possible to walk along the beach to and from work so that was groovy.
The other volunteers (except Sonja, bitchface) were awesome. Will miss them and hope we can keep in touch after.
Can't write about it all because there's too much and I'm lazy but here's some things that happened: I got splashed by a bow-riding dolphin calf, rescued a seagull which was named Lizzy, met a Batman, possibly saw a minke whale!, helped look after a sick pipistrelle, nearly got hit in the head with a greater horseshoe bat (got to hold one of the babies too. so cute! and big as an adult pipistrelle!), did something to James Bond that may not be legal so that's all I can say (unless you ask me later), watched more Friends than I ever thought possible (hurrah for digital!), fell off the roof of the boat and there's probably more but I forget exactly. It'll come to me. Just wanted to say a quick hi before I went for me tea. Twas fantastico though. Very much so.
www.cbmwc.org, if you're interesed. Which you should be!
Before I go, here's an example of how gross Merthyr people are. As we're moving we have a skip out the front for all the crap we're not taking. Stuff like cabinets, old bikes, a headboard and lots of bin bags full of crap. Many of which have been cut open and rummaged through. Ew! I think we should put bags of used cat litter in there. Hah!
And now for tea.