For a few months now, we’ve been seeing increasing number of ominous ‘white spots’ appearing on the reef, I’d never seen anything like that here in Rurutu before. Coral bleaching is a global issue, and the Great Barrier reef in Australia and parts of Tahiti and Moorea are known to be suffering, but it’s a first for us. I was particularly struck by how fast it all happened and how many bleached corals there are now. Only time will tell how many are actually dead and how many will recover. It’s quite likely to be linked to a rise in local sea-level temperatures, and exacerbated by pollution. Every time it rains here in Rurutu the ocean turns reddish-brown with sediment washing down from the interior... even here, lost in the middle of the Pacific, we can't ignore human impacts on our environnement for very much longer...
It’s also time
for me to face the changing seasons of my life, I am now officially in my
forties, we celebrated with pizza and a mousse cake, life ain’t so bad !
Looking on the bright side, the advantage of this hot rainy season, lots of sunshine and showers = beautiful rainbows!
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