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i got to go to st. paul island for work a few weeks ago. it was beautiful there. lots of seals, lots of flowers, lots of drilling.
show comments (2) add comment there were lots of fur seals.   Mairi: Awesome pictures. The foxes are so cute, and the seals. I want to go there. steve: can you see russia from there, kels? maybe you should be vp...	add comment lots.
show comments (1) add comment   Nigel: This place is so remote! I can't imagine what living there would be like.	add comment
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add comment this one was so cute! look at his whiskers!	add comment this was the cat at the coast guard loran station where we were staying. her name is cali.
add comment the coast guard loran station.	show comments (3) add comment looking out of our sweet rental truck. someone said it was a bullet hole under the duct tape.   Nigel: There is a car rental place on the island? kelly: apparently there is! and word on the street was that this truck is the one that the producer of the deadliest catch rents when he is out there. Shopping Bag: Umm, guys? Is anyone besides me more interested in / worried about the fact that there is a freaking bullet hole in the windshield? Is this St. Paul Island or Tombstone?
add comment these little poppies were everywhere.	add comment one of the first days i was there, we went to see a bird rookery.
show comments (2) add comment there were little foxes there too! this one barked at us.   Mairi: I want to hear a fox bark! kelly: i have video (with barking) too! i wonder if i could upload it or not.	add comment the sign heading into the town of st. paul says that there are 203 species of birds on the island.
add comment i liked the puffins.	add comment
add comment there is a fox poking his head out of one of the pipes.	add comment
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add comment	add comment i went to st. paul for work. so here are some work pictures. we did a lot of drilling.
add comment here's me, working.	add comment there is a fox named stanley that lives around the coast guard station. cali the cat chases him off from time to time.
show comments (1) add comment this is the utility map for the area where we were drilling. yay!   Nigel: Lotta utilities for such a tiny island.	show comments (2) add comment i made a bunny out of some clay from one of the cores.   steve: is that in the scope of work, kels? kelly: you'll find that in the specs.
show comments (1) add comment near the coast guard station, there was an FAA installation with three round white buildings they called the golf balls. this is a crater lake behind the golf balls.   Nigel: What does the FAA do out there? Are they manned buildings?	add comment
add comment	show comments (1) add comment   Nigel: I get it. Looks unmanned.
add comment these flowers really were everywhere. i still don't know what they are.	add comment lupine leaves.
add comment TDX power has three windmills on the island. i saw one of them going on two different windy days.	add comment "road" of flowers.
add comment i took a picture of this bird because i hadn't seen one before. i later found out that it's a parakeet auklet.	add comment
add comment this day was really really foggy, and it looked so cool near the coastline. you can't really tell from my pictures.	add comment one day, sara and i hiked up polovina hill which it turns out is not the tallest hill on the island.
add comment weird wavy formations.	add comment
add comment the ridge along the top of polovina hill, where you can see one side is windblown and the other is not.	add comment it was very windy.
add comment the same day we hiked up polovina hill, we drove all the way to the end of the road on the east end of the island.	add comment there was a beach near the end of the road.
add comment	add comment back at work, as you can see. working hard.
add comment lots of sand in the cores.	add comment more work. landspreading.
add comment this is actually work too. we walked to several lakes to see if we needed to sample them.	add comment this is the memorial that stands just across the road from the coast guard station. one of the coasties was shot by a local because he was messing around with the guy's wife.
add comment there were purple flowers everywhere! i told sara and katie they should frolic in the flowers, and they did!	add comment
add comment a very rainy day.	add comment on the last day we were there, we went to the museum in town. they had seal pelts with the guard hairs removed. they have to be just about the softest thing ever.
add comment this is a photo in the museum, they used to have cows on the island. i thought it was a funny picture, because the cows look so out of place.	add comment
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add comment we went for a hike on the last day to try to find some lava tubes. we had some vague directions, walk perpendicular to the second pull-out and head towards the first of three hills... we didn't make it.	add comment
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show comments (1) add comment it got sunny during our hike!   steve: looks pretty desolate out there, kels...	add comment after we didn't find the lava tubes, we drove to the end of the road on the west end of the island.
add comment the clouds were really neat but the sun was so bright my camera doesn't do it justice!	add comment more seals on the rocks.
add comment	add comment so beautiful. a wonderful end to a great trip.