2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/miss_jane_73/rss.xml 2008 - What a year. Antarctica then Africa. Couldn't have asked for more. Well maybe I could have because as of xmas 08, I reseigned from my job and now I'm 'footloose and fancy free'. I've started out the year with another trip to Antarctica. I'll be spending almost 8 weeks about the icebreaker Aurora Australis heading for a Japanese station - Syowa. Then the world is my oyster. I have no plans yet but hopefully they'll be just as exciting as last year!! http://www.getjealous.com/miss_jane_73 http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=558679&go=miss_jane_73 Unbelievable - I missed out on seeing an Orca (or Killer Whale)!! Apparently there was one out stalking penguins along the ice edge the Sunday night. I really should give the watchkeeper the phone number for my cabin with instructions to call me day or night (the night is pretty much as bright as the day at the moment) if he spots one because they always seem to appear when I"m not on the bri... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=558679&go=miss_jane_73 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557978&go=miss_jane_73 There was a bit of a change in schedule to our party day on Sunday. After having had almost glassy smooth seas on Saturday morning the weather turned shitty. Winds from the east picked the seas up so we were rocking around again. The one good thing is that the wind and seas are coming from behind us so were actually cruising along at a pretty good speed and we"re ahead of schedule. The bad th... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557978&go=miss_jane_73 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557987&go=miss_jane_73 Well week 2 began with a bit of an increase in sea swell but fortunately there was no sea sickness to go with it.Did my little bit for climate change research this week - helped out in one of the labs testing the pH of sea water from as deep as 3500ft. The Japanese were well onto this global warming phenomena well before the rest of the world and have been monitoring the changes in the oceans for... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557987&go=miss_jane_73 Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557984&go=miss_jane_73 Well, what can I say about this trip so far besides the fact that it's a bit slow! At the moment we are stopping nearly every morning so that some deep sea sampling can be done. They are lowering this 'Big Thing' (I'm sure that there is a technical name for it - it's a couple of feet by a couple of feet - cylinders all lined up vertically) a few thousand feet and then on the way up they seal off c... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=557984&go=miss_jane_73 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=521955&go=miss_jane_73 Okay, so it probably wasn't under the best of circumstances but it was still pretty awesome!Savannah the cheetah has 3 cubs. It's a bit of a mystery how it all happened but yesterday one of her cubs somehow managed to get outside the reserve fence and they think it has broken it's leg. Apparently Savannah was very distraught, pacing the fence line, and they returned the cub to her, with it's bro... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=521955&go=miss_jane_73 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519230&go=miss_jane_73 We weren't quite sure whether we'd actually get the chance to do the mountain phase this time because there have been lots of bushfires in the area. The group that went last week actually came back after two days because the fires were getting much too close to the cottage and the trap lines. Fortunately the cottage survived and the fires died down so we got to spend a fantastic 5 days up in the... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519230&go=miss_jane_73 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519778&go=miss_jane_73 One of the special things about being here at Karongwe is that we get the opportunity to go out on drives within the park at night. This is all possible because of a leopard called Shiloweni.Shiloweni was causing havoc in one of the communities by coming to close to the people there. It wasn't discovered until after he was captured, collared and relocated to Karongwe that he was having problems wi... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519778&go=miss_jane_73 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519505&go=miss_jane_73 After doing a 6pm till midnight shift last night watching Shiloweni, I had to get up at 6am this morning to head out again on a general drive. Was feeling a little tired - been a while since I've had to do so much shift work but always have high hopes that we may see something interesting. This morning definitely lived up to expectations!We'd found Nyeleti (a female cheetah) and her two cubs. T... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=519505&go=miss_jane_73 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=514886&go=miss_jane_73 I know I say this a lot but WHAT AN AMAZING DAY!!!On our afternoon drive today we went out in search of Ketswiri. She is another female cheetah here at Karongwe, a young female about 2 years old. I was on telemetry duty again which meant keeping the driver up to date as to which direction the signal was coming from.Even better than just tracking in the vehicle we actually got to walk in on her. As... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=514886&go=miss_jane_73 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=514551&go=miss_jane_73 Today was a day of firsts.It started out very frustratingly. We got signal for the animals we were looking for and we closed right in on them but they were always just out of reach, in a locations that we couldn't get to. Usually down a ravine. We were getting rather despondent.Then we started looking for Savannah, a female cheetah. This is a difficult talk in itself as there are 2 animals in thi... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=514551&go=miss_jane_73 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT