What a joyful week!
I would like to pick some pieces in this week to share with you all.
On Tuesday (4 November 2014), Perry, Yuki, Heyman and I conducted
boat surveys at Northeastern and Northwestern of Lantau Island. At the very beginning,
we got much fun and excited as Mrs. Ng caught a dying Flathead mullet in the
nearby pier of Sham Tseng (Ma Wan Pier). Look! Such fish was around a double of
the length of my hand. Most pleasantly, Mrs. Ng and her husband could have one
more delicious dish for their dinner. Ha…Ha…..
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Photos above show how lucky we are today (4 November 2014)
Luck did appear within two days! We conducted land-based survey at Tai O on
Wednesday so as to examine the impacts of dolphin-watching and fishing
activities. The advantage of this survey method is to collect information on
undisturbed behaviors of Chinese White Dolphins. How happy we were!
There were
9 groups of dolphins we could observe at this station that day. When an
individual dolphin or group of dolphins was located via the theodolite, and
focal follow methods were then used to track the dolphins. A focal individual
was selected within a group for further tracking its behavior and movement. We
also recorded the detailed information about the selected individual or group every
5 minutes including the group size, behavioral state data (i.e.resting,
milling, traveling, feeding and socializing) until the dolphins were lost from
the view. It is another type of experience to watch such lovely pink dolphins
without any disturbances.
The scenery at Tai O is good and you can enjoy the
seafood restaurants and the traditional salted fish, shrimp paste and
storefronts at Tai O. I highly recommend all of you to have a relax trip at Tai
O with your family and friends at weekends.
Heyman and I tasted the yummy
steamed buns at the end of our survey
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