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Our First Day of Tagging in Nagoya

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June 21, 2025 The STRETCH team assembled at 0800 and made our way to the PNPA to begin our work day.  Today we will do 8 turtles in total, starting our with a Splash 10 tag and a Mini tag combo- through a special arrangement with Wildlife computers.  We arrived at the aquarium at 0845 and began work by bring up the turtle for the Splash tag.   Over the course of the day we were able to place satellite tags on 8 of the 28 juvenile loggerheads raised by PNPA. Below are some pictures from the day's work: Team members preparing the carapace for attachment of the tags. Our first Splash 10 + Mini tag turtle. Sanding the scutes in preparation for satallite tag attachment. Recording the data / IDs for each of the 8 turtles. Adding polyester resin to glass cloth to attache the satellite tag to the carapace of a juevenile loggerhead turtle. Adding the final resin coating to the tags. Adding a coat of anti biofouling paint to the tags. Returning the satellite tagged turtles...
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On Our Way To Nagoya - June 20, 2025

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 We had some breakfast with George at Kansai and then caught the Haruka limited express to Shinb Osaka and are now onboard the Hikari shinkansen bound for Nagoya station.  After arriving at Nagoya station we will take a 5 min local train ride to Kanayama station and walk to our hotel.  The shinkansen trip from Shin Osaka to Nagoya. This ends the blog for our "side" trip in Japan.  Subsequent posts will be on  https://stretchupdates.blogspot.com/2025/06/stretch-updates-cohort-4.html
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A day in Osaka - Namba specifically

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  We had a fun day in Osaka.  We left the house in Tanabe around 1000 hours and caught the Kuroshio limited express treain at 1030 for the 1.5 hour ride to Shin Osaka Station.  We had some trouble finding a please to store our luggage because all the lockers were full.  We had to check it in at a luggage storage area... more expensive but still convenient.. NOTE:  we were amazed that when we came back to Shin Osaka we actually found the storage place on the first try!!!!  These really big train stations can be really confusing at times! We caught the Medosuji metro line out to Namba Statiion and proceeded to visit three or four places we had picked out earlier.  They were:  the 100 yen store, the Hozen-Ji Temple, the Kuromon Market, A fishing store and the Ebisu Bridge.  We managed to get to them all and had a great Macha ice cream cone to boot! This is the in thing to do at the Evian Bridge! Macha ice cream cones-very good on a hot day!this ...
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Back To Osaka- June 19,2025

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After Laura enjoyed a morning stroll, we are headed back to Osaka by the JR Kuroshio limited express from Kii Tanabe to Shin Osaka Station.  Once there we will store our luggage and go back to the Namba area to visit a few shrines, take a look at a fish market and do a little shopping. Subsequently, we will head back to Kansai airport to meet up with Balazs, spend the night and head to Nagoya tomorrow to begin the satellite tag work.
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