I'm Back!

This is the beginning of my pics from Laysan Island. We lived in wall tents, and had big tents for our office and kitchen, then Gretchen, Amarisa and I each got out own individual tents. We had beach front property, with the best view on the island! Lots of time seals would haul up to camp and spend the night with us!

Laysan is the largest of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, about 7 miles around. It also has a hypersaline lake in the middle. Laysan is home to the trifecta - Laysan Albatross, Laysan Ducks, Laysan Finches. The ducks and finches are very endangered, and are only found on Laysan (both), Midway (ducks) and Pearl and Hermes Reef (finches).


Gretchen in her tent:


Rainbows are abundant:


Fish and Wildlife camp: they have a permanent presence on the island, so they have fancy weatherports to live in:



Noddy footprints:


Laysan Albatross chick prints:


These graves belong to 2 Japanese guano workers who were part of a revolt in the 1800s during the guano mining era. They were shot by the caretaker of the island, who was found not guilty of the murders.


A ray of light!


Part of our ocean front view:


Shipwreck from about 25 years ago on the south side of the island. It is a Japanese Maru ship: