Awaiting the Typhoon.

5-6 hours of watching video …

The typhoon was still southwest of us, but the wind and sea conditions kept us in port. No matter because all of us congregated in the Iruka House (dolphin house, where I am staying) and confirmed ID's from three more videotapes. Only 5 tapes remaining … before we gather more data. And, tomorrow will likely include more videotape viewing. It was nice to recognize so many individual dolphins, and review the footage shot. We have more than 6 hours of video and sound data gathered this season. And, we have about the same amount of click detector data (i.e., recordings of echolocation signals from individual dolphins). The typhoon seems to have increased speed and should be here tonight, not tomorrow. Till tomorrow, Kathleen