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Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott October 24, 2015 LADY MUSGRAVE ATOLL, Great Barrier Reef >> After a 10-hour sail to this national park, I launched Honu’s dinghy to visit the island inside the circular reef. I expected a tranquil beach walk followed by a peaceful picnic. Instead I could [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott April 3, 2009 A Florida teacher e-mailed me recently offering to share a fairy tern picture he took while visiting Midway in 1983. He was in the Navy at the time, stationed at Barbers Point. I never received the picture, but he did send [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott April 27, 2007 Last month, the whale-watch trip my friends and I took was so windy, and the one whale we saw so distant, the company gave us a rain check. I thought it unlikely we'd ever get the group together for another go, [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott January 6, 2006 Last week, a 17-foot great white shark made front-page news when it showed up in Haleiwa waters and stuck around for 45 minutes. That wouldn't be particularly newsworthy except at the time, eight people were there watching the huge fish from [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott October 31, 2003 Here on remote Tern Island, where only four of us live with thousands of animals, there's almost always something spooky going on. Everything that happens has a logical explanation to it, but still. Some events would send shivers down anyone's spine. [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott October 03, 2003 Usually when someone looks over my shoulder while I'm writing, my concentration flies right out the window. Here on Tern Island, however, it's the window itself causing the problem. At this moment, two fairy terns stand on its louvered sill, reading over [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott September 19, 2003 Last week, I carried six lost turtle hatchlings to the ocean, snorkeled with one gray and two white-tipped reef sharks and banded two black noddies, one fairy tern, several red-footed boobies, two masked boobies and some tropicbird chicks. During the banding, [...]
Published in the Ocean Watch column, Honolulu Star-Advertiser © Susan Scott January 17, 2003 A Nuuanu reader writes: "For the past two years, I've been watching fairy terns flying in and out of Foster Botanical Gardens and Liliuokalani Garden. But all of a sudden they all disappeared. Where else could they be? Can you write [...]
May 1, 2023 When in 1961 a birder reported a fairy tern egg in a Koko Head kiawe tree, no one imagined what that first-ever egg in the Main Hawaiian Islands meant for the future. At the time, the species, native to the tropics worldwide, raised chicks in Hawaii only on islands in [...]
A feel-good moment: Craig and I returned this beached baby octopus to the ocean where it squirted a cloud of ink and disappeared. ©Craig Thomas April 22, 2022 My daily routine of reading the Star-Advertiser, listening to HPR, and watching evening news has been like taking three depression pills, one after [...]
