I didn’t ever think my career in boating would come to me fighting a skua over some seal poo. Alastair is on holiday on the Barff – we took him, Matt boat and Sam over this morning. As a result I went over to Maiviken to collect 10 seal poos for him to sieve through when he gets home. Believe me he can have that job any day!

It was very hot here today stunning blue sky with wispy clouds and no wind in the afternoon. It was hard to find the number we needed so I walked all the beaches and ended up face to face with a skua who wanted the faeces as much as I did. Total of about 16km up and down the hills and through the tussock dodging grumpy fur seals. Andy who went over with me walked quite a distance ahead of me (very understandable) as there was a cloud of smell around me! We also checked the rat boxes – todays catch none on Greene and two from Maiviken.