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| Last 10 days on Round
2007-08-18, Black River, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | Last Tuesday, 7th August we finally managed to negotiate a solution so that we could go back to Round Island. We, that was Zayd, Christine, her assistant Zayrabee and I. Round Island was on the brink ... |
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 | April
2007-05-06, Chamouny, Mauritius. By: cola | | I started my pigeon work at the field station Pigeon Wood. The last wild population of Pink Pigeons were found in this cosy (wet) wood, which is made up of mostly Japonese pine, Criptomera. Set approx... |
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| Back on vibrant Mauritius
2007-07-21, Black River, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | Since yesterday I am back on the Mauritian mainland. It was a hell of a helicopter flight, I mean really, really nice. It was the first time to fly back from Round Island by helicopter. And to see the... |
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| More news from the science front :-)
2007-07-15, Round Island, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | It’s the end of week six that I have stayed on Round Island so far. There are still three more to come. The last week was a very vivid week. With the help of other people here, I managed to get quite ... |
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 | Life
2007-04-07, Black river, Mauritius. By: pigeons | | I havent written for ages so please forgive me if this entry is a little long!!!
Ive know been here just over 12 weeks, can you believe it? I certainly can't!! Life seems to be rushing by at the mo... |
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| Evening in the Palm Savannah
2007-06-15, Round Island, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | This evening I am out in the Palm Savannah again, the last time for a week. I hope my friends are doing well with their backpacks, so that I do not have to worry about them next week. It’s a very spec... |
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| Exciting days ain't they
2007-05-28, Black River, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | What can I say, yesterday was an experience of its own. After a relaxed morning in the house in Black River it became very lively after 11 o'clock. One of the rangers who are responsible for managing ... |
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| Beauty in the Indian Ocean
2007-05-26, Black River, Mauritius. By: tomtori | | It’s such a great thing to finally be sitting on a couch in front of nice house owned by the organization I work for while collecting the data on Round Island. There’s the blue sky, the sun smiling do... |
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| An average week
2007-04-07, Black river, Mauritius. By: pigeons | | Its so very difficult to describe an average week and condense it down into a journal entry but i thought it's about time i tried.
During the weekends we all chill at the weekend house, lie on the ... |
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| The birds and the work
2007-05-06, Black River, Mauritius. By: Cola | | Hi, let me tell you a bit about the pigeons and the job. The birds were heading for the evolutionary eternal graveyard in the 1970s after long term introduced and invasive predator species and habitat... |
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| The first fortnight
2007-05-06, Black River, Mauritius. By: Cola | | So I landed on the sunshine Island of Mauritius on a cloudy but hot April morning. I was greeted by the lovely Kelly and whisked off to Pigeon Wood...the rainest place on earth...
This is where I l... |
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| Calling all friends
2007-04-07, Black river, Mauritius. By: pigeons | | So i have my new mauritius phone but ive discovered its cheaper if you all text me on my UK number and then i can reply with my mauritius one. So basically there's now no excuse for not keeping in t... |
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| Address
2007-04-07, Black river, Mauritius. By: pigeons | | My new address is:
c/o Mauritius Wildlife Foundation
La Preneuse,
Black River,
Mauritius,
Indian Ocean. |
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| Finding my feet
2007-04-07, Black river, Mauritius. By: pigeons | | Despite the fact it took me 1 1/2 hours to pass through mauritius customs i've finally arrived. Woohoo!! Im living in an area of national park and we have hot water and electricity due to the wonder... |
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 | Mauritius Madness
2005-08-30, Grand Baie, Mauritius. By: plikka | | Hi Everyone!
Marhaba, and greetings from Turkey! We realized the other day that it has been ages since our last posting, and we've seen so much it's hard to know where to start. So… on to Mauriti... |
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 | Deep Sea Diving - Excellent
2005-09-08, Mauritius, Mauritius. By: Ross | | Hi Guys
Just so that you know we did do many other little things and sight seeing but too much to write about, one thing we did go do is the Odessey Walk, for those of you who don't know what it is... |
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 | Got up at 05:30 Soooo Early
2005-09-05, Mauritius, Mauritius. By: Ross | | Hi well day one the weather was a bit under the weather, so we decided to go explore the beach a bit and see the sights around us and how the Hotel actually looked since we got there in the evening.
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| Arrival in Mauritius
2005-09-04, Mauritius, Mauritius. By: Ross | | Today at 12:15 we boarded the Mauritius air flight. Not a bad flight more space than this well known airlines and very friendly service. I did not know what to expect when arriving at my destination s... |
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