After 4 hours sleep my body clock struggled with the time zone and decided sleeping after 2pm UK time wasn't happening! So I got up and went to the gym to see if exercise would help pep me up. I gently exercised while watching Serena Williams win her 22nd Grand Slam title against Angelique Kerber. John was up when I got back to the room so breakfast and exploring Kodiak was in the cards. The weather was following the forecast - cloudy, light drizzle and rain. T...

We arrived in Kodiak just after 10.00pm, the sun was going down and bugs whizzed round our heads as we waited for the Best Western transfer bus. Because of the 9 hour time difference we had to remind ourselves that we were tired because we had been travelling for over 24 hours. We left Cambridge at 0430 and headed to Heathrow for our 0925 flight to Seattle - we were an hour late arriving which was immaterial as our flight to Anchorage wasn't until 4.25pm. Our fi...

Our last morning and last chance to have the best and lightest scrambled egg I have tasted - John has the instructions to repeat the experience at home but I am not sure they will be repeated! We said our goodbyes, promising to return, and at 0830 headed with Moli to the airstrip - a journey of @ 3 hours. We added another three species of birds to our list as we ventured east making our grand total a very creditable 137, this was alongside 27 mammals and 4 repti...

At 0710 our last walk set off for the 13km walk back to camp - slightly longer according to my fit bit, probably because we had to negotiate our way around pans which still had water in them. It was a lovely varied walk along the river, through wooded areas, over granite kopies and through the last section of long dry grass, whose seeds still sneaked down my gaiters and into my socks, on the climb back to camp. Around one pan there were white storks, ( today's ...

Our walk today ventured even further downstream - we had great views of the river and water birds - but interestingly saw fresh human footprints which was apparently the sign of local fish poachers which Moli later reported to the authorities. As we continued we watched a bushbuck, oblivious to our presence, as she walked across the sand islands in the river. We saw lots of evidence of Ellie's but didn't see any, we also drew a blank on new birds although our li...