This past Saturday, at sunset, I climbed the 51 steps of the Kilauea Point Lighthouse for the last time as a park ranger. When I reached the Watch Room, I slowly and carefully closed the round, brass vents that allow air to circulate. This was the floor where lighthouse keepers spent most of their time…
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Report from Ranger Rogers: Parking Cars and Sharing Moments
A week ago, on Earth Day, under blue skies, I took my spot in the parking lot at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. “Did you know you’d have to be a parking lot attendant when you applied for the job” a woman asked me a couple weeks ago. “I did,” I said. “But it’s only…
Report from Ranger Rogers: Speaking of Scat.
Wedge-tailed shearwater are back at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. I can tell by the white splotches on the sidewalk leading from the fee booth, alongside the bookstore, and up the slight hill to where the first view of the lighthouse comes into focus. Where nene scat resembles a cat’s leavings and is easily scooped;…
In Honor of World Wildlife Day and My Bestie
Yesterday was World Wildlife Day. I celebrated by going SCUBA diving with my best friend who is visiting from frigid Detroit. A bit about World Wildlife Day: It’s one of the newest “world days” around, proclaimed as such on December 20, 2013 by the United Nations General Assembly. The intent behind the day is to…
Seven Things Laysan Albatross Teach Us About Love.
Laysan albatross are the kind of bird with which we fall in love. They possess faces made from the strokes of an artist’s paint brush. They glide with their six-foot wings stretched taut and swoop in gentle arcs up and over ocean waves. Laysan albatross are the kind of birds that make us humans long for wings…
Why the Discovery of Harper Lee’s Manuscript Encourages Me.
Today, The New York Times announced the July publication of a second novel by Harper Lee, age 88. The story goes that Lee wrote Go Set a Watchman but shelved it when an editor suggested she rewrite it from the point of view of a young Scout Finch. That rewrite, of course, became the wildly bestselling To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel…
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