Waddle for Penguins 2014
March 07, 2014 by dyertrust
This year was the first time for the Primo Group, as they became known, to use a drone to film from overhead.
The coordination of activities for a group of 20 people is always a huge challenge, when we started the negotiations with this group we very quickly realized that there is a language barrier. Luck was on our side, as we have a wonderful young lady by the name of Francesca N. Manca, from Udine in Italy, who we met in 2012 when she joined our Marine Dynamics and Dyer Island Cruises family as a guide on our Whale Eco Trips and Shark Cage diving operations. Wilfred Chivell, owner of Marine Dynamics and founder of the Dyer Island Conservation Trust, invited Francesca to accompany the group as translator, coordinator and guide and we flew her over at our own cost from Italy to assist us with the Primo Group.
Without Francesca the language barrier during their visit would have been a struggle, as she in addition to coordinating the group also translated our lectures