Boating to Waterfall Bay and Green Gorge
Many
of us enjoyed a fine afternoon’s boating on Saturday last weekend. We took
three zodiac inflatable rubber boats (IRB’s) most of the way down the east
coast of the island to Waterfall Bay, Green Gorge, and Sandy Bay. There were
several purposes of the trip: to deliver a load of carrots and rabbit traps for
use in connection with the distribution of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus as
a pest rabbit bio-control agent as part of the Macquarie Island pest
eradication program, to transport some of our people to and from station for
fieldwork activities, and to collect some building materials from Sandy Bay to
bring back to station to be used in the construction of a new viewing platform
and boardwalk for tourists to view the isthmus. We can only undertake these
boating activities on fine days, and they take a bit of weather watching,
planning and organisation. As travel over the island by land is limited to foot
travel, the boats are the only way to move heavy loads, other than when
helicopters are here over re-supply.
(Photo: Mick Whittle)
(Photo: Mick Whittle)
(Photo: Ivor Harris)
(Photo: Ivor Harris)
(Photo: Ivor Harris)
(Photo: Ivor Harris)
(Photo: Mick Whittle)
(Photo: Mick Whittle)
