Welcome to the 'Project diary' at Eudyptes.Net.

The field season has started. At the moment (until 13. November) we get bitten by penguins, be bombarded by Sooty Shearwaters, burped at by annoyed sea lions, attacked by crazy Skuas, blown away by antarctic storms and all in all be overwhelmed by the subantarctic Snares Islands.

The Snares Islands are out of reach for every ordinary mobile phone, and thus we'll be greatly impeded if it comes to communication with the civilized world and especially the Internet. However, we have a satellite phone, which is going to be used to check and send emails and every now and then there'll even be an update on the Startepage of Eudyptes.net. Unfortunately, the satellite connection is not the cheapest way to communicate and therefore it seems unlikely that the project diary will be as up to date as it used to be (meaning that updates only appear on the startpage - there'll be no archive of dispatches until we're back).

As soon as we're back, the project diary will be updated and contain a full archive of all dispatches published during our time on the Snares - with images!