Working…

…Or as R.P. says, yachting on the company dime.

Let’s see, I work 8 ten hours days every two weeks.  Of those 8 days on, I have usually been on the sound 5 of those days doing 5 he Gweduc monitor job.  This means that I provide for the safety of the divers and monitor the harvest of the giant clams to ensure conservation of the resources.  Of course that means I am out here on the salt water.

The Renegade

The boats…

The Whaler:  a 25 foot Boston Whaler Frontier.  This boat has been around for a while.  It was procured by the department after being used as a photographic platform by the National geographic folks.  It has recently gone through some upgrades and is our primary monitor vessel.  It now sports a single 300 hp Yamaha motor, two marine vhf radios, a police radio, new lighting and everything has been rewired.

So what do I do out here?  Mostly bob around like a cork.  I keep an eye on the harvest boats, see what the clams look like, make sure all the divers are actually diving and sometimes just sit alongside and shoot the bull.

I often see a lot of wildlife; porpoise, gray whales, orcas,seals, otters, eagles.

 

Pair of eagles