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Date: 07 December 2004 21:28:26
Our house has become Sealwatch Central HQ.
A very large female elephant seal uses the peninsula to shed its fur every year, and to stop people going down and spraypainting their names on it, riding it or doing doughnuts around it, local environmentally conscious people go and stand guard around the clock. Our housemate is in charge of the watcher roster, so the phone rings a lot and the house is alternately filled with swearing (if it's someone cancelling) or hoots (if they are volunteering).
I'm not used to living with such constant excitement. It's stressful. It's also part of getting used to share-housing I suppose, and we'd better get used to it because if we get the lodge-managing jobs we're after next winter we'll be living with lots more people.