The Oscar Elton Sette returned this week. They are picking up the monk seal crews that have been monitoring the seals on most of the islands up the chain. They also dropped off a couple of people from Tern Island who'll be flying out next week. Welcome to Midway Sarah and Dan! We've still got a lot of people on island with the work crews being here. There aren't that many details to tell you about this week so I'll just get to the photos.
The Oscar Elton Sette is pulling back into the pier on Thursday morning.
This excavator is getting some sand from the beach near the cargo pier to fill in areas where sand was removed for lead paint remediation.
There are few albatross chicks left, but those that are left are usually trying to find some shade.
The chicks are thirsty so when it rains, they try to catch as much as they can.
This is one of the last Bonin petrel fledglings walking by a Laysan albatross chick that wasn't so lucky.
Now the bird population is low enough that the planes can fly in the daytime. It gets back to Honolulu about 3 p.m. now which is a lot better than 1 a.m.
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