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Everything in quotations are lyrics from Jack Johnson songs. I do not own these lyrics, nor the songs, nor am I affiliated with Jack Johnson. I’m just a broke conservation biologist who was sitting around one night listening to his awesome music and started to make his music describe how I’m feeling. Before I got . . . → Read More: Jack Johnson Inspired Post…About Africa. Hello World! I am SO proud to be able to say that I have done it. I have completed the first part of my trip. The trip that inspired this blog, my charity, a new perspective on life, and most importantly: My wardrobe. During the last nine months I have met some of the . . . → Read More: For they are jolly good fellows! It is my last night in Diego. Four nights until I am back in America, and I am feeling such a range of emotions; truly, I don’t think that my writing abilities can convey the bag of things that are sprinting through my brain right now. I cycle between intense excitement, sorrow at leaving, butterflies about . . . → Read More: The Last Night. Cue dramatic music please! Hello all! Life is amazing and super busy. I love Madagascar; I love my work, my friends, the culture, the activities…I am truly having a fantastic time. That being said, the tension in-country seems to be rising, albeit at slow levels. I’m sure many of you have read about the recent police mutiny in Tana . . . → Read More: Madagascar…updates all around! I been asked over and over again what it was like for me to live in the forest, and it occured to me how unbelievable it might be to some people that, along with three other people, I lived without electricity (well, we had a generator that we were able to use about once a . . . → Read More: Home Sweet Home. I mean…Tent Sweet Tent. Want to know what it’s like to start off a work day with a 1.5 hour hike on a rainforest trail involving several ravines and a small mountain? Until I visited Bioko, I always thought that the cliche “dripping with sweat” statements were simply literary exaggerations. Well, I’m here to let you know that it . . . → Read More: All in a day’s work; yep, this is definitely not sexy. During my time working for the BBPP, the objective of our work was basically to census a long coastal trail that stretched through long areas of unexplored Bioko Island habitat. Although we were technically on a trail, I would have to say that the use of the word “trail” became more and more loosely used . . . → Read More: Trail hiking…but without the trail. As most of you should know by now, I spent just under three months in the rainforest of Bioko Island working at a field assistant for the BBPP. One of the perks of the job is that we worked in virtually unexplored areas; we hiked into areas that even the locals don´t even frequent. Being . . . → Read More: Exploring the Island: The Siopi River During one of the last days of my fieldwork time on Bioko Island, a coworker and I were lucky enough to stumble upon two wild grey african parrots just hanging out in a tree. They were more than happy to chirp away for us; it was amazing to see them in the wild and not . . . → Read More: African Grey Parrots in the wild! So I have to admit that I never got to see any turtles while I was at Bioko; they were coming up onto the beaches to lay their eggs at night, but occasionally, one would still be out of water during the early morning hours. A coworker and friend of mine got some short videos . . . → Read More: Turtles and things. Partner Sites |
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