We nearly didn't get a boat trip today - the boat refused to start, so we all traipsed back to the house whilst Joan tried to fix it. Joan quickly came up with an alternative plan to keep us volunteers happy - a trip to Lefkada - but one new battery later, the boat was as good as new! Cindy and friend kept us entertained for a while - coming really close until we had cameras ready, then disappearing completely until we put them away again!
Success at last - Joan managed to get a skin sample (although he missed a couple of relatively easy opportunities as well!). Another good sighting - lots of aerial behaviour, stationary behaviour, percussive behaviour, spy-hopping etc etc!
We had lunch out today - at Niko's (the rendezvous for the project) - a few traditional Greek starters again then pitas. Then we had an afternoon of completing the matching from yesterday...
Joan has been giving lectures and showing videos most evenings, but as we've seen most of them twice before we've carried on matching instead. But tonight, he wanted to show us some photos from July, where they came across a dolphin with a new-born that had died - the mother kept pushing her baby around, keeping it afloat. Very harrowing photos, but also very interesting.
Claire is cooking another cheesecake tonight (with some help from Elaine!) - she thinks she's got the right ingredients this time. Given how nice the first one was, tonight's should be really good! She's also taking her DIY air conditioning very seriously - preparing extra ice, a planned program of putting the ice in the room earlier... - we'll see whether it makes any difference!!!
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