Today our sites were located in Ark in the Park, a section of the Waitakere Ranges that are located about an hour away from Little Huia. It was clear that this forest suffered more recent disturbances judging by the vegetation growing in the area. I worked with Sara and our sites were the closest to the meeting place and pretty easy to walk through, so surveying our transects was quite easy. Unfortunately there were no frogs, but that’s kind of what we expected in this park, but it didn’t stop us from searching thoroughly. We ended up waiting almost 3 hours for the last group to finish, but we found a nice sunny spot and I read a book and napped with the group. Using the walkie talkies to communicate was really fun!
We stopped in Titirangi on the way back to check out the 2nd hand book store and get some groceries. But when it was time to meet at the supermarket Wendy was no where to be found… we waited a while and finally we saw her limping toward us, talking on her cellphone. It turns out when she took a little fall today in the stream, she damaged a tendon in her foot and she had been visiting a doctor and talking to Jono on the phone to try and make arrangements.
(Post TimTam slam, clearly full of joy and contentment)
So plans are changed for tomorrow and we’re going to go to Ark again instead of the Huia catchment and do 3 sites which are located close to the path. If Wendy’s foot doesn’t get better (which I’m expecting it won’t any time soon) we’ll have to have a sub come in. So quite an unfortunate situation, and though we are perfectly capable of working by ourselves, we’re required to have a field leader with us in the event that everything goes to hell and someone breaks their neck or something. Not likely, but I guess if it did happen we’d be pretty screwed.
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