Bernie, If those seals could have got their business card technology sorted out and been able to exchange messages each time they passed in the night, your ears would be burning now. There can’t be a seal out there that isn’t relieved not to be caught, but sad not to be studied, as you leave the world of seal tagging to us lesser mortals.
Your innovation, energy, enthusiasm for disease epidemiology as well as ecology, humor and love of all things Caledonian will be missed. My heart goes out to all who will have holes in their lives now you have left us. X Frances