Many of us have been following their activities in Taiji the past few years and the Faroe Islands are basically the Taiji of Europe.
Much and more can be read about the faroese Grind on their website: www.seashepherd.org/grindstop/
Because volunteers were needed and since the Faroes are not that far away from Germany we decided to go and help.
We were assigned to join the team on the island of Suduroy, which is the larger southern island. We will fly in from Billund in Denmark directly to Vagar Airport, take the bus to Torshavn and then the ferry to Suduroy.
We packed inflatable mattresses, sleeping bags, instant noodle soups and warm sweaters. So we should be all set!
Aunt Lettie proposed I should write a blog about this, so I hope I can manage keeping you posted because I will only take my kindle with me. I haven't tried typing lengthy texts with it yet because I get frustrated with autocorrect, especially when I have the German language setting on and write in English. But I suppose switching the setting would solve that ;)
14 volunteers were arrested recently because they were within the restricted area around the killing beach which is only for "authorized" people, which apparently includes children. They were released, but still, we hope to avoid such legal conflicts. If we should disappear, you know what happened!
ps: did anyone get the star trek reference in the domain name?
I really admire the two of you for doing this - i hope you and the whales stay safe. I can't wait to read all about it, post whenever you can.
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Same here - I think it's so great you are going there!!! Respect!!
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll have a fun and interesting trip even though the reason for being there is very serious!! And I hope you'll see no pilot whales !! Will follow this blogg close!! Be safe and enjoy