Posted by a_r_n on Thursday, February 25, 2010,
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Soldado Rock
On the 21st February I met with CFCA's bird survey team at 3:00am at the Forestry Division Compound in St. Joseph for the long ride down to Cedros where we were to meet our boat. We arrived before daylight and had time to streach our legs from the long ride before we all climbed aboard the research vessel. It was a smaller vessel than the one we use to survey around Saut d'Eau but everyone was able to fit comfortably. The sea was much calmer on this side of the island as we were within the Gu... Continue reading ...
This survey began earlier than the previous one, which resulted in us leaving the dock before the official sunrise. Although the light was dim, the sea conditions were favourable for sightings with a beaufort of 3 and low sea swells. Halfway to the island of Saut d'Eau, around 6:20, the light improved. The vessel slowly circled the island to to find a safe way onto the island itself for our next trip and to enable the bird surveyers to get photographs of the nesting pelicans to help them make... Continue reading ...
On
the 24th January, I found myself on a Coast Guard vessel at 6:30am
racing along the north coast of Trinidad towards the island of Saut
d'Eau (So-do) with camera and binoculars in hand, looking for any signs
of whales or dolphins. I was on CCARO's first cetacean survey of the
year.
On
this month's survey, although we have heard from our interviews with
fishermen, that dolphins pass along this north coast route regularly
in the morning, no whales or dolphins were spotted along our survey
rou... Continue reading ...
Posted by Alesha Naranjit on Saturday, February 13, 2010,
An opportunity for us to do boat-based cetacean surveys at two coastal sites near Trinidad came about when we heard that the Caribbean Forest Conservation Association (CFCA),
working with EMA, the Wildlife/Forestry Division and UWI, was
embarking on a 6 month survey of the sea bird populations on two
offshore islands, Saut d'Eau and Soldado Rock, which are important
breeding sites for many of our seabirds. When CCARO approached them
about the possibility of having a CCARO researcher accompan... Continue reading ...
