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A registered nurse since 1974,
Susan Scott earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the
University
of
Hawaii
in 1985, and a certificate in marine journalism from the university’s
Marine Option Program.
Besides her weekly
newspaper column, Susan has authored and co-authored six books about
nature in
Hawaii
.
Periodically, Susan
works as a volunteer biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
giving her access to
Hawaii
’s
remote wildlife refuges.
She does her own photography for her books
and lectures.
Susan breaks up her writing
routine and wildlife work with adventures.
She’s worked as a
volunteer nurse for the Aloha Medical Mission in
China
,
the
Philippines
,
Vanuatu
and
Bangladesh
.
After hiking to the top
Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, she went on to trek to Mt. Everest base camp,
and later crossed Pakistan’s Baltoro Glacier to spend her 50th
birthday at the base of K2.
As first
mate, Susan sailed in 1986 from
Connecticut
to
Hawaii
via the
Panama Canal
.
From 2004 to 2006, she
captained her 37-foot ketch from
Hawaii
to
the South Pacific, and on to
Australia
.
She is currently writing on a memoir of the
voyage called
Sailing Through Menopause via
Palmyra
,
Tahiti, Cook Islands,
Tonga
,
Fiji
,
New Caledonia
and
Australia
.
The boat will stay in
Australia
until Susan gets the bug to sail it somewhere else.
In 1983, Susan, a Wisconsin
native, moved to
Hawaii
and never left.
Today she lives in
Kailua
with emergency physician, Craig Thomas, and their dog Lucy. |
