I joined Greenpeace in '95 because they had had a big impact on me over the years with their work. I felt it was my turn! My first campaign experience with Greenpeace was sailing to Mururoa with the peace flotilla that left from New Zealand to protest French Nuclear testing. I was aboard Aquilla D'oro. Since then I have been involved at different levels with Greenpeace New Zealand primarily in an Action and Logistics capacity. I joined the "Arctic Sunrise" for the first time in March '97 and have since been involved in the Southern Bluefin Tuna campaign in the Southern Ocean off NZ, I was logistics and crew for an aerial action involving the Greenpeace helicopter "Tweety" on the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill. Sailed to Vancouver (lets not talk about equator crossings!) and up the British Columbia coast for the rainforest campaign. While doing surveillance of a logging camp (8 days) in a stunning cove up one of the inlets, I had a close encounter with a Grizzly bear and cubs! Made it back in time to assist in a barge occupation in Port Hardy. Traversed a line between the two cranes of the 400ft barge, to take the other crane crew food and water after the police had thrown it off! Then sailed to Alaska, took the larger inflatable (Hurricane) up the Seal River to the Bering Glacier to document and witness the Glacial retreat. Got off in Homer, Alaska and hitched to Vancouver to work on the "Moby Dick" (now sold) then rejoined the "Arctic Sunrise" in Alaska bound for Japan. I was in the Action Logistics team in Kyoto for the Climate Change Conference in December '97. Flew to Australia to do surveillance on land and from spotter planes for the Southern Bluefin Tuna Campaign, the "Rainbow Warrior" was there. Joined the Warrior for tour of NZ, Climate change and Fisheries work. Rejoined in Japan now bound for Alaska.
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