Bird report for Atuona
& harbor June 1: 30 Fairy-terns (White Terns), 80 Black Noddies and 20
Great Frigate Birds & 15 dark morph Pacific Reef Herons. In town, 1 Myna,
11 Rock Dove (Pigeons), innumerable Zebra Dove.
Bird, etc report, Ivaiva Iti, June 2, 2012: Brown Booby, Reef Herons, giant ray (4 feet across, 7 feet nose to tail), millions of tiny jelly fish, school of silvery fish, school of black fish. 2 or 3 wasps. A few NoNos (sand flies that bite bad, look like fruit flies).
Free advice:
1) If you find squid on your deck, do not put in your freezer for future bait. It might go in a part of your freezer that does not freeze solidly and your freezer will soon smell - awful.
2) If you need a ground for your Iridium antenna, put the hockey puck antenna with the magnet on your oven tray and take it outside away from your mast. The oven is about the only magnetic metal on the boat, all other manufacturers going to great lengths to make their boat equipment non magnetic so that it won't interfere with compasses on the boat.
3) If it is 90 F inside, get your hair wet, spray yourself with water and sit under 2 fans. Wait for the sun to sink lower in the sky. Use the heat of the day to nap and work at night.
4) If you want to stay bug-bite free for the rest of your entire life, stay married to me. I spoke too soon. Nonos are biting me as I am the decoy, totally avoiding Barry. It is like this with every bug in the entire world; even the leeches liked me better than Barry.
5) Forget about using your iPad to identify stars and planets (even the moon!) using the Night Sky app. As the boat rocks the view of the sky on the iPad rocks and you can't read anything. Last night I finally figured out that was Saturn next to the moon but the other bright star I couldn't read.
Position : 9 54.88' S, 139 06.56' W
Bird, etc report, Ivaiva Iti, June 2, 2012: Brown Booby, Reef Herons, giant ray (4 feet across, 7 feet nose to tail), millions of tiny jelly fish, school of silvery fish, school of black fish. 2 or 3 wasps. A few NoNos (sand flies that bite bad, look like fruit flies).
Free advice:
1) If you find squid on your deck, do not put in your freezer for future bait. It might go in a part of your freezer that does not freeze solidly and your freezer will soon smell - awful.
2) If you need a ground for your Iridium antenna, put the hockey puck antenna with the magnet on your oven tray and take it outside away from your mast. The oven is about the only magnetic metal on the boat, all other manufacturers going to great lengths to make their boat equipment non magnetic so that it won't interfere with compasses on the boat.
3) If it is 90 F inside, get your hair wet, spray yourself with water and sit under 2 fans. Wait for the sun to sink lower in the sky. Use the heat of the day to nap and work at night.
4) If you want to stay bug-bite free for the rest of your entire life, stay married to me. I spoke too soon. Nonos are biting me as I am the decoy, totally avoiding Barry. It is like this with every bug in the entire world; even the leeches liked me better than Barry.
5) Forget about using your iPad to identify stars and planets (even the moon!) using the Night Sky app. As the boat rocks the view of the sky on the iPad rocks and you can't read anything. Last night I finally figured out that was Saturn next to the moon but the other bright star I couldn't read.
Position : 9 54.88' S, 139 06.56' W
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