Thursday, July 19, 2007

Women in the Workshop



As part of Katrine's project, we must remove some damselfish. She has tried relocating them, but they have some type of built in homing device and almost always end up back at their territory. Short of loading them into a boat and taking them to th other side of the island, it means removing them. To accomplish this, we spear them. However, when you hit a rock at close range, the spears bend a lot, making them difficult to use again. We needed more, so Katrine got more metal rods and the two of us headed over to the workshop to make the points and the notched ends for the elastic. We got to learn how to use a grinder and a metal file and made a whole slew of new spears for the team. Who needs men? :)