Water, water everywhere

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Water, water everywhere

Hi Children,

Hope you all had a great Christmas and Happy New Year!!

December was very wet for us, in fact the wettest since 1991, thought you might like to see the rainfall figures and compare them to the UK.

I have also put some pictures below to show you what the island looked like after heavy rain.

We had to rescue the poor little white-tailed tropic bird chick as its nest got water logged

The one really good thing is that all our water barrels are now full to the brim, so there is no shortage of drinking water!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: did it snow at all?; 8 January 2009 at 04:09
Anonymous said...: what was the tempurature; 9 January 2009 at 04:13
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Adaptation at Grand Anse

Last month both I went into Grand Anse Primary school with Rory, one of our volunteers, to talk to the children about birds and adaptation. However it was just any old ordinary talk as we were really lucky that Rory played the Ukulele. Now a ukulele is a very small string instrument like a guitar and Rory was a bit of a musician so put together the children had a bit of a treat – Rory wrote a song for them all about birds and adaptation. I thought you might like to see the song and some of the pictures of the day.

Birds of the Seychelles

Verse 1
I got a beak that’s long and it is curved
For feeding on a flower, I am the sunbird
Flying around so fast you might not see
I’m so small you can’t catch me

Chorus
BIRDS BIRDS they fly so free
From the air to the ground and out to the sea
I’m a bird....I’m a bird
(x2)

Verse 2
Well I’m so pretty, oh so pretty
But I have to say that it’s a pity
That I stink of fish, but you should learn
I’m a pure white seabird, I’m a fairy tern

Chorus x 2

Verse 3
Well I get up early and come home late
Out fishin’ all day to put food on the plate
Beak like a hook gets the fish underwater
So hold your breath ‘cos I’m the shearwater

Chorus x 2

Verse 4
What’s for breakfast? What can it be?
A bowl of insects and worms for me!
With my pointed beak, on the ground I’m hoppin’,
Sing with me, I’m a magpie robin

Chorus x 2

Connor asked what do we use for fishing

Hi Connor

The fish with me in the picture above, is an emperor, and with Sal (below), is a grouper, both very good to eat. We caught it on a 6ft boat rods and reels that we brought from home. We use very strong line and hooks, not because we want to catch really big fish, it’s because when you’re reeling in the smaller fish we want to catch for tea, the bigger ones take them, and sometimes they are sharks! If we catch sharks or other big fish we let them go.

The Seychellois do not have rods and reels, they use hand lines, which are very thick lines with a big hook on the end, their hands are very strong, they are very good fishermen and always catch fish.

Melv

island 2 island - from Somerset to the Seychelles

Sunday, 4 January 2009