MIDWAY JOURNEY II - First Impressions

Dear Friends and Followers of Midway Journey,

Thank you for your patience as we have taken a few days to find our bearings and connect to the Internet. We are astonished and delighted to find ourselves back here again on remote Midway Atoll. The tiny island is now covered with several hundred thousand fledgling albatrosses inhabiting the paths, walkways, roads, meadows, and even the runway.

It's hard to describe the complex mixture of feelings that arise in the presence of this incredible abundance of wildlife, especially as we are keenly aware of the devastating effects of the plastic that fills the stomachs of a huge percentage of these young birds. One purpose of this leg of our journey is to witness to their annual die-off, which will result in thousands of plastic-filled carcasses covering the ground as we saw when we visited here last September.

We've already begun to acquaint ourselves with the new stories that this chapter of our journey holds, and we look forward to sharing them with you over the next couple of weeks. Thank you for joining us in this process.

With warm regards from Midway Atoll,

Chris, Victoria, Jan & Joe

www.MidwayJourney.com


Video by: Jan Vozenilek

Music by: Christen Lien http://www.itsnotaviolin.com

See the area where this video was filmed on BlooSee's satellite imagery: http://bit.ly/8XwT9R

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