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1982 to 1984 there was debri at the Settlement and on the rocks/beaches near to Cinq Cass. The South facing coast to the West of Cinq Cass seemed to have the most debri some of which was 20 to 30 mtrs inland from the high tide mark. During 1982/84 there was a tropical storm, sea spray was blown inland to about 100 mtrs along the North and West coasts to the North of the Settlement the salt in the spray and the sunshine devastated all the vegetation along the coast. A corrugated metal roof sheet from the boat shed was found in the sand near to Pass Femme at the inlet which the paroques used. All 4 foot and 2 inches of Bernar who was born on the Atoll and made the huts, chairs, tables and bunks at Cinq Cass which was all very suitable for himself was not seen for 2 days. He'd gone to his safe place which no one else knew the whereabouts of. Those who'd been on the atoll more than a couple of months wore different coloured flip flops acquired form the beach near to the Settlement where the Japanese grave is. Beach debri such as the flip flops, ropes and containers could be put to good use. Parts for the machinery and buildings could take a long time to acquire, make and mend was a necessity. There could be 4 to 6 months between the supply boat (lover of love) The Lady Essemy's visits. John Collie was concerned about the debri and I think it was Jean Mortimore who refered to the island of debri in the North Pacific. Labels that were found on some debri showed that it came from Australia. Thank you for showing the well made video.

Homie was chilling in the afterlife being extinct and shit one day then another be like: ZEUS! YOUR BIRB HAS RETURNED! *I BRING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BIRDSEED OF OLYMPUS!*

This documentation stunned me. Since so much waste remained there despite the effort: have there been follow up projects to continue?

It’s gonna evolve webbed feet next

A lot of centipedes just eat their prey immediately. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one dragging it around.

I would love to have the opportunity to work on this island along with the other researchers. I assume that they must be in perfect health as drug prescriptions would be a problem. I adopted an Aldabra Tortoise thinking that I had everything that it needed. Every day is a challenge. I'm thinking about starting a UA-cam series to show people what it's like living with this species. I have so many questions. My dream is to visit the atoll with my tortoise so that he or she can live out the rest of their life in it's natural habitat. I have questions about that too.

1982 - 84 there was the spare flip flop beach just past the settlement near the Japanese burial. Cinq Case coastal area had plastic in amongst the rocks. Most of the plastic with labels had come form Australia. It is good to think back to the time of being on the atoll.

Thank you for making the vid available to the public. I was there 1982 to 1984. Good to see things again. Lots of changes. The boat shed is not there, nor the fuel or fish shed or pig stys. Nice to see one of the 3 generators in the generator shed into which football often tried to get in but he could not get over the edge, he was there every day and was often watched by a young cougal who looked in through the window. They were not run 24 hrs a day they were stopped at night about 21.00 till about 08.00 the next day. The freezers kept the fish etc frozen for the 8 hours or so of no lecky. Looks like there is a lot more stuff there now. Don't recall the name of the large tortoise. There were about 3 big ones and a couple of small toroise around the station. One was called bathtub. Lots of bulbills, fodies, nightjars, bats and sunbirds which hurtled through the mess room. Big ants that attached themselves to the electric wire ends and followed any electric wire. Lots of insects, white pawed rats in the bushes as well as hermit crabs. Biggish crabs digging trenches in the brush. Some names. Len Mole, David Stoddard, Jean Mortimer, Mazerin, Rock, Patrick Bijouse, Fuldancia, Tiptee Haree, Maree, Anne Marie, Harry Charles who went charcoal black in the sun, John Collie, the incredible Berna. About 12 to 15 people at the station and settlement. I can picture several other people but I do not remember their names. The Lady Esmy, Blackstone engines, Rolly. 4 weeks from Mahe'. 6 months between supply boat visits. Onions. - There were 13 outboard engines of which 2 Johnsons 35 HP and 2 Yamaha paraffin/petrol could be considered reliable. The bumboat which had a crack in the transom. The diesel launch which was too slow. The fibreglass rowing boat which was nippy with a 15 HP on the back, 2 waterlogged del quay doris, In 83 or 84 two Yamaha 19ft boats were delivered with the pet/paraffin outboards. So we all went on a trip around Main Passe and back - test run and read the rain gauges at Polyminie.

I so much love watching wild life videos you have! Thanks for posting them!

So great to hear these voices.

Continue comme ça 👍

Slm from Indonesia 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The extinct bird that came back from death..

LMAO IT'S THE EXTINCT BIRD THAT RE EVOLVED ITSELF BACK INTO EXISTENCE

Hi, I have worked and lived on Aldabra in the early 2000's - a wonderful and challenging experience. Thanks for sharing the information in this video, great to see you're managing out there. With all the research conducted out there from the '60s I'm specifically interested in the 'problem animals', specifically the rats, cats, crows and goats on the island. Could you direct me to the current research conducted out there - including the eradication methodologies? Secondly - the amount of staff resources allocated to the turtle programmes vs all other priorities, the tortoises (for example). Best regards, Dean Morgan.

Great work. Keep up

Thank you for putting this on youtube it was good to have a look. 1982 /84 the tropical birds were often seen on the islets in pass Gigi near the station. The sacred ibis were always in the scrub near to the crocodile bones and upside down jelly fish pool and around that area the fruit bats well asleep hung upside down from the bushes. There was bathtub and football, football could not get into the generator shed but would try every day, the step was a bit too high and a coucal would watch from inside a nearby bush. There were 3 or 4 tortoise that came and went from the station area. Never saw a dugong. There were lots of tuna and dolphins. There were lots of sharks inside the lagoon. Rare to see them on the reef flat except when they were going in or out with the tide. John Collie spotted a guitar shark by the ration boat. Also lots of rays on the reef flat. Jean Mortima would swim across the passes S of the station where at certain times of the year the heavy scent from orchids was mesmerizing. Harry Charles who would not swim out to the boat at dusk or early morning often slept on the boat for the early ration fish trip he and the men went fishing inside the lagoon for red snapper of a size that = one meal. He knew just where to go. Fairy terns were seen along the Malaba N coast they'd hover about 1.5 mtrs from you calling. There were Frigate birds on an islet near to the pass This'll do between Polymini and Malaba. Boobies could be found in a gully on the W side of Main Pass. The Fodies and Bulbuls would disappear with the pigeons at the site of a boat near the reef flat but at night the nightjars could give you the feeling there's someone there. Flightless rails were at Polymini and would at the rattle of the rain gauge come out and peck your toes. There was a large shark just inside at the corner of the channel that went into the mangroves which in 1982 was blocked by the growth of mangroves however in the 70s Len Mole said the channel went through to the bay before main pass. When asked why he had painted the fire extinguishers red Mazerin said "because fire engines are red". Sans changes.

I wish I could go

What a DREAM to live and work on Aldabra!

So cool! I actually jumped at 0:11

Love you seashells country from India🇮🇳

Thank you for doing this expedition and recording it ⭐

love your fotage man :)

And corona????

Keep it up! great work

What is the name of this beauty?

This is awesome

little black chickies :3

Looks like there's more plastic than in the early 80s at Cinq Case. The small beach just beyond the settlement where the Japanese grave is was known as flip flop beach where they were stacked up like a wall. Some of the plastic had come from Australia. I hope you have success with the project it's not easy to change the lazy, easy way of others. As one fella said " we are on a lifeboat in space and there's people knocking holes in it". Any chance of an oldie going there and picking up some of the plastic?

May you do well with your venture, find solutions, persuade others to care. Difficult to go against the main stream of easy, lazy, popular ways. 1982 to 1984 the small beach beyond the settelment where the Japanese grave is was known as flip flop beach, it was where we got our replacement flip flops from. The hollows at the costal area near to Cinq Case was where plastic blown by the wind accumulated, some of which had come from Australia.

Very cool

Can you let us know if it is OK for news organizations to use this video with a courtesy to you, per: storyful.com/clearance Thanks

Love it!

how did you capture this? its amazing!!

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