Blonding

From around mid/late-November each year the Furries start giving birth to their pups. When they do the seal team will be surveying them and in order to note which pups have already been processed they get a small change to their hairstyle - they are dyed blonde!

Furry pup with a blonde hairstyle

But the seal pups can't be expected to go in for this change of colour on their own, so every year the Bird Island team join them. Therefore, meet the BI crew that decided to become blonde as well!

Top: James and Siân the seal team
Middle: Al, me and Lucy the bird team
Bottom: Jerry our station leader and Ian our tech

The process of becoming blonde was a lot of fun and gradually we all started getting lighter and lighter!

Lucy starting the blonding of my hair

Al's hair gets lighter whilst Siân preps Lucy

But we didn't stop there! Blonde wasn't enough so we decided to bring out the colour!

Lucy putting purple tips in for Siân

Ian going for the blue mohawk!

By the end of the night we were all looking quite colourful with blonde, purple, pink, red and blue all over the place!

The finished looks

Maybe an unusual team photo, but a classic already!

The next 18 months is going to be amazing!

But a special mention has to go to Robbie, our outgoing tech. With not having the blonding being done initially he decided to join the whole team by going for the blonde look in a less obvious place!

Robbie ended up blonding his armpit hair!

Robbie is a lot of fun and he will be missed missed on BI. But we wish him all the best for his year on King Edward Point!

For the rest of us it is now time to go and continue our survey work knowing that the seal pups are happier now we have joined them in the hairstyle department!