The boat will be arriving tomorrow, your today I imagine! Sometimes I just felt like I have been on this island forever, probably due to the lack of new stimuli. Like, nothing really changes here. I have lived and worked with the same four people for the past seven months.
I am ready for some changes. Like people, movies, news, a space larger than this island. The boat is supposed to pull in at eight am. We are going to do an island tour with the newbies. Later in the day, it is the plan to show them how to make and disperse bait. I think the next day we are going to do an early morning ant survey and then go to one of the outer islands to explore!
Not sure what the exact plan is, but sometime during the next five days we will show them our ant survey routes, the ant farms, how to work the compost toilets, how to make drinking water, the marine survey routes, how to go queening, how to do bird banding, how to search and destroy an invasive plant here, ant ID, where to take their trash, how to do the slop bucket runs, how to do dishes, how the oven works, changing propane tanks, how to conduct bird MICs, how the sea turtle survey works, and how to do the weekly and monthly chores.
We are going to be busy. This was our view of the island coming in. I wonder how it will feel seeing a boat coming to our remote island!
Johnston Atoll Adventures 