It was great to see many small blue penguins being released back onto the sea. Now free from the oil that had threatened to take their lives and cased pain and suffering. They were like lots of little :happy feet running down the beach. Also looked like a lot of triathlon swimmers starting a race. The Rena did not take the lives of these little birds.
Containers starting to come off Rena
Salvos are starting to get the containers off and remove them via barge to a safe place. they predict it will be a long slow job and estimate a limit of six a day dependent on weather.
Last of the oil pumped from Rena
It sounds like the last of the oil will soon have been pumped from the Rena. This means that there should be no more oil leaked into the sea. The beach clean up continues and will do for some time but should get easier.