Missives: Part Four

Things continue to go well!  Unfortunately, we got an entire group of new people out here at the field station, so our internet bandwidth got VERY overcrowded, so I won’t be able to include as many of our absolutely adorable new photos in this post as I’d like (and what I do include will again be low res)!  We also have some totally hilarious footage of Maya’s reaction to some of our lizard catches - she loves (loves!!) 99% of the lizards out here, but is deathly afraid of thorny devils.

We got a gigantic rainstorm here a couple days ago, and several of our sites completely flooded out.  We have some epic photos and video of both the flooded roads and of us bailing 20 liters of water out of every pitfall trap.  We had to close some sites down (i.e., put the lids on the buckets and then secure them so that nothing can get in until the next time someone is out here to run the trap lines), and it changed our plans for next week to go out with some of the traditional land owners (Martu, in this case) to another site.  The Martu rangers were planning to do some prescribed burning, but now everything is sopping wet - not so feasible!  So we are re-evaluating what to do next, but whatever it is, it will probably involve leaving the field station and losing what little internet access we do have, so this might be the last post for a while.


We miss everyone back home!  xoxo :)

Big puddles

Rolling through the trap line in the mud

Woodland habitat!

Dada found Maya a kangaroo :)

I give her spinifex wands to play with when she's in the Ergo

Checking traps with Dada


We've been catching mulgarras!

Yes, there are bush flies, and they are EVERYWHERE.

Swapping shoes with our collection manager - I love this one :)

Helping with mammal trapping

What I do: nurse.  A lot.

My favorite sign here - a bilby!

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