The rat team finished the Greene on Friday and despite a miserable forecast for today it was one of the most beautiful days we have had. I was in shorts and t-shirt pretty much all day. Tommy and I picked up Andy and Alastair from the Greene where they had been looking for dead rats and removing the last of the bait boxes.

The rat team tested the hook on TC (helicopter that dropped the hopper) with a bit of steel and decided it was OK to put on the spare hopper.

The Thatcher was started and next we knew we heard pellets hitting the roof! As you can see above in the picture they are quite large pieces of bait. After they ‘painted’the Bore Valley (where we get our water) a team went up and removed the bait away from the stream and from within the stream. They have proven that we wont get sick from it but still are removing the pellets as a precaution.

So onto tomorrow which is a busy day with the last of the seal pup weighing and sonar search for the hopper.