https://www.takingflightproductions.com/up-north-the daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1631114190892-S7KF4296B4PUR7CS9EQ2/ND1.jpeg Up North Photo by Shawna Schill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/14c0effe-7a8a-45d3-996a-871cb3d16e7b/ethan-interviews-rocky.jpeg Up North Ethan interviews Rocky just outside the American Museum of Natural History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/c474d4dd-4ca0-4295-b24c-2de12475371d/Up+North+1.jpg Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/7f1d179b-8cdc-4fdc-8e95-e569d840f3f4/Up+North-+NYC%2C+April+2016.JPG Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/361eeef7-8000-4e3a-b20e-03debf31bf89/Up+North+2.jpg Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/d970567a-cc30-4905-9aa8-1ab2ae748ebb/Up+North%2C+NYC%2C+April+2016.jpg Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/29cd5dd1-4650-4261-9801-09e30bd52684/Up+North+3.jpg Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/bbe345e8-611b-4564-bf6a-cf52df36383d/LPB1.jpeg Up North Field Station at La Perouse Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/e1eca762-2e10-4aaa-b2a4-cb78d75d9534/LPB2.jpeg Up North Launching a drone used to observe vegetation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/fe7cce53-24f2-46a6-9350-f0cd2917745f/LPB3.jpeg Up North Biology Professor Susan Felege examines a Common Eider egg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/a94a393a-315c-437e-814a-034c4e575e9e/LPB4.jpeg Up North Common Eider nest with eggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/83c72184-7d1c-454d-b96f-f4569776f1b1/LPB6.jpeg Up North Scientists look at what's in the water around camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/cd793331-c4a4-46ef-a5af-2491d82ac6b3/LPB5.jpeg Up North Rocky talks with Andrew Barnas about polar bear scat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/4cc990b6-4b77-4c06-b2e9-850ad88bd189/IMG_9520+%281%29.JPG Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/bb9c33bf-308b-4b61-9702-8d446f0e186c/IMG_9467.JPG Up North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/2a6407dc-12dc-461e-975b-e818b1f6f74b/IMG_9526.JPG Up North https://www.takingflightproductions.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-06-04 https://www.takingflightproductions.com/home daily 1.0 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/8d891e22-b12e-46df-aed8-a1850afae6cd/FullCircle_VODPoster+%281%29.jpg Home - NOW AVAILABLE ON THE iTUNES STORE , PRIME VIDEO, GOOGLE PLAY, VIMEO, HOOPLA, PLEX, AND OTHER CABLE AND INTERNET PLATFORMS. Full Circle is a film that celebrates one woman’s triumph in conservation: the Great Gull Island Project, Helen Hays’ 50-year quest to save two species of threatened seabirds. During her long term study, she vastly increased the numbers of nesting Roseate and Common Terns on a small, uninhabited island in Long Island Sound. The film reveals the nesting season of the terns up close - arrival, courtship, hatching, feeding, fledging - and highlights the myriad of volunteers fostered & inspired by Hays over the decades; her extensive collaboration with scientists in Argentina, Brazil and the Azores; and also her remarkable & heartwarming connection with a small fishing village on the north coast of Brazil. Hays’ dedication has helped complete an important circle, not only in conservation efforts, but also in connecting people from all over the globe… people who were once strangers, are now friends & colleagues working together for a common cause. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1630509147391-7NF4TZ23NAE29MBSL178/Image+8-19-21+at+1.31+PM+%281%29.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1631115173213-J379CS4ZKDF1CHG28FKL/LPB1.jpeg Home https://www.takingflightproductions.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1630633022825-AT96WYUNNJEGE0N8MJBW/Full+Circle+-+Banded+Chick+.jpg Great Gull Island Project - The Great Gull Island Project is a monitoring study of Common and Roseate Terns nesting on Great Gull Island, which is in Long Island Sound off Orient Point on the North Fork of Long Island. Additionally GGI connected with scientists in Brazil, Argentina, and the Azores, where many of the banded birds from Great Gull Island spend their non-breeding time. Helen Hays and her team relied on many volunteers each year to help gather data on the island and maintain the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/53c8c8b8-f2ff-473c-8e8e-be6a396a7073/Image+7-22-22+at+3.22+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project HELEN HAYS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/85fb0c42-0e40-4698-b688-029d0479480d/Full+Circle+-+Chick+on+Rock.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/5ae22f03-478f-4cd7-b8ce-754963eb699d/Hays%2CWelton+GGI.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/45404f8f-e11f-4501-a854-c0f3a89ea6db/Helen+in+the+blinds.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/056bb0e7-2246-4d16-b5fa-db3f99a92855/Helen+2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/e4a56f66-f520-4878-ab01-15e93e0e73bd/Image+9-1-21+at+3.05+PM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1630633487090-FB08QUH3HTY49FZEQPOO/Image+9-1-21+at+12.06+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Augie Kramer, Gull Islander since 2014 “Coming to Great Gull Island for the first time in high school, never could I have imagined a place where such a diverse group of people would come together with a common goal of studying and appreciating terns. I am forever grateful for Helen and the rest of the amazing GGI crew for fostering my love of fieldwork and bird research.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/a2d484b2-4d07-41a4-abf9-733744eeba87/Image+9-1-21+at+12.15+PM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1631824344116-BXV0WZNFAQXTENF5LPGS/Image+9-13-21+at+10.21+AM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1631824316618-8WPGE5TME9446H4YJJCL/Image+9-13-21+at+10.19+AM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Talvi Ansel, Gull Islander “Every time I hear a tern or see a tern flying by I think of Gull Island and Helen's work out there. Full Circle captures all that and makes me very homesick.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/1631824506236-93GNMCGVT657Q8YDA0PK/Image+9-8-21+at+5.41+PM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Bear Fox, Gull Islander “For me, Great Gull Island is the closest place to Heaven on earth. I miss it dearly.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/bc45b108-696f-4ea0-8f75-8058c8c2a2d0/Screen+Shot+2021-09-21+at+11.04.40+AM.png Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/54ad89ef-072b-4d1c-8815-24c98f236773/Image+9-21-21+at+11.19+AM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Grace Cormons, Gull Islander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/49499441-aef6-41d6-8cac-08cce783062e/Screen+Shot+2021-09-09+at+11.43.28+AM.png Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/bfa2656c-eb33-4ea3-bb9f-e8d7ba653847/Screen+Shot+2021-09-09+at+11.48.53+AM.png Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/116a62b5-7f6f-4dfc-ae5e-b4687e51803d/Screen+Shot+2021-09-09+at+11.44.47+AM+%283%29.png Great Gull Island Project Joe DiCostanzo, Gull Islander "Besides my family, Great Gull Island has been the biggest and most important thing in my life. " https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/511cc1a5-c78f-421d-8d7a-786d7bfe3f0d/Image+10-12-21+at+3.39+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project Dick Young, Gull Islander “Great Gull Island, steeped in American history and home to one of the largest tern colonies in the world, is a unique and wonderful place. Far and few are the locations where the average person off the street can go mano a mano with such challenging birds. During peak, when one is stressed and in the thick of it, it is hard to maintain that perspective. It has been my privilege to have spent 36 summers there. Kudos to Helen for keeping the Project going lo these many years. I know that, having been there, I have been changed for the better, and for good.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/2a598bd1-4d6f-47b7-8ed3-347cc2a77e21/Image+10-12-21+at+3.38+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/10a77910-3965-4b95-914b-3edb2ab01326/Image+10-12-21+at+3.43+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/026f4bde-46d5-48e4-81c8-67da17bdce4c/Image+10-18-21+at+4.31+PM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project Matthew Male, Gull Islander I first came to Great Gull in the early 1970’s as a teenager for a weekend. Helen Hays was at a water bird meeting in Australia. My father and 3 of my brothers came also, and we were put to work clearing vegetation (some things never change). It was exciting to explore the old fort and island, I jumped at the chance to return for a few trips the following year, helping my older brother with a film he was making (some things never change). I met Helen who soon put me to work as a handyman (some things never change). I became intrigued by all the life on the island - birds, seals and insects, as well as the people. Through the last 40+ years Gull Island has become the place I think of as home, and the people who work there have become family. I plan my life on shore around my time on the island. I love to welcome the terns every spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/791bcd8b-7984-4f6d-a178-5e115ec1f313/Image+10-18-21+at+4.34+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/fadc18fb-6330-45b7-927d-a010230150e9/Image+10-18-21+at+4.31+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/49ef16a9-d221-46fa-90fe-d85ed63e6db9/Image+11-1-21+at+4.22+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project Peter Paton, Gull Islander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/5f09ea40-dc49-4b7f-91bc-6c4a92ecd0db/Image+11-1-21+at+4.25+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project “Great Gull Island provides an incredible opportunity for University of Rhode Island undergraduates to get involved with a critical conservation program. For over 8 years, I have been bringing students to assist with habitat management and creating nesting opportunities for both Common and Roseate terns. Students are so excited to know they are helping to protect the largest Roseate Tern colony in the NW Atlantic, with over 50% of the region's nesting population.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/91bda802-9819-43b7-b5aa-1ac73681aa68/Image+11-9-21+at+10.30+AM.jpg Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/cec6600e-fe65-46ce-b8bc-32c2069314d8/Image+11-9-21+at+10.29+AM.jpg Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/745d46b8-7923-426f-808d-9f477528b5ab/GGI+hats.JPG Great Gull Island Project Loretta Stillman, Gull Islander, since 1984 “I remember the first time I set foot on Gull Island, a graduate student looking for an adventure in Ornithology fieldwork. Bareheaded, I bounced off the dock and into a maelstrom of feathered fury. Hundreds, (seemed like millions) of birds diving at my head, screeching and swooping and raining down bird poop. With my arms over my head I made it to the main headquarters where everyone seemed unperturbed and busily unpacking a boatload of food. They all wore hats. First lesson learned. Above all else, everyone on Gull Island needs a good hat and a poop shirt. The hats and I did not get along. Standard issue was a straw hat with a crown of sticks attached with duct tape. In theory the sticks gave the birds an attack target above the level of your head. In practice you had to use so much duct tape that the hats became top heavy and slid off your head just as the meanest bird on the Island was going in for the kill. Luckily Helen is always open to new ideas and I suggested perhaps something softer than sticks might work better. On my next trip back to the Island I came loaded with plastic flowers from the Dollar Store. I was in the hat business, sewing plastic daisies or roses, or even orchids onto hats. Helen considered the matter scientifically and by observing hats in the field, determined that yellow daisies were attacked the least. For over twenty years Helen and I always have yellow daisies on our hats.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/b8f2a6a7-2e7e-418d-9855-5e634c8605cf/Image+8-19-21+at+1.29+PM+%281%29.jpg Great Gull Island Project Michael Male, Cinematographer/ Producer of Full Circle, Gull Islander since 1974 “May of 1974 as a university student was my first time on Great Gull Island. It was early in the nesting season. The island was still washed fresh by winter, tern courtship calls filled the air, and egg laying had just begun. The weekends were busy with Gull Islanders preparing for the full on nesting yet to come. During the first week I was there Helen and I covered nest check alone. It was all magical to me, and Helen such an amazing teacher! I unfortunately had to go back to the mainland for a paid summer job the rest of the season, and again in 1975 I was only able to spent the same two weeks of May on GGI, but with Helen’s encouragement hatched a plan to return for the full summer in 1976 - to make a film about the project! A dream come true for me … combining natural history and documentary filmmaking, something I very much had the desire to do but had no experience doing. Helen thought it possible, and that makes it a go! UConn offered me independent study credit in biology & fine arts, a camera (that had been used to film studies of "Birds of Paradise” courtship in New Guinea!) was borrowed from the basement of The Museum and “Ternwatch” was the result in 1977 after months of work. Learning while doing can certainly be effective, and it set me off on a career. For “Full Circle” I returned to Great Gull Island to film again some 40 years later. Of the several filming trips the favorite and most magical one for me was early season ... yet again. The experience of seeing the tern flocks first arrive after their long migration was new, and getting to share that excitement with Helen who remains as enthusiastic as ever, was a huge treat!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/faad7dff-6438-458c-b272-1f0ad1745cc4/IMG_0220.JPG Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/934973c5-4e78-4b7b-8411-e7cfd8fe2469/5B6C9F71-BB92-40EA-8F20-50BDFEC0CE92.JPG Great Gull Island Project Lottie Prushinski, Gull Islander since 1992 “Helen is an inspiration to all Gull Islanders. I have missed being able to o out to the island the past 2 years, hopefully we will all be able to get back out there, clear vegetation, welcome the common and roseate terns back for another season and start marking nests again. Of course we can’t forget those wonderful breakfasts, lunches and dinners that Helen along with the volunteers make, and sitting around after dinner and catching up with everyone. Hope to see everyone soon!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/2eefdc31-82a3-4673-ad8f-441ad9f6df21/Image+1-3-22+at+4.09+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project Verónica Neves, Gull Islander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/81e6c6c9-6ff0-4597-bb0f-975b5babede0/Image+1-3-22+at+4.17+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project “Working on GGI in 2017 was an inspiring and heart warming experience. The restoration work done for the birds is amazing and I felt part of the winged-human community from the first moment on the pier! So much fun, learning and discovery. Thank you Helen, for being so open, kind and enthusiastic.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/4121b0a4-02f2-4d01-8c43-3307f0921345/Image+1-11-22+at+5.17+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/8af8fe5d-fbb7-41b9-94f2-949377e91008/Image+1-11-22+at+5.14+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/ff403ecc-8a13-4616-9ebd-b5592cf0a57f/Image+1-11-22+at+5.10+PM.jpg Great Gull Island Project Matt Cormons, Gull Islander “Great Gull Island entered my life thanks to my then-girlfriend Grace. From her first visit she loved it so much she wanted to share it with me. In subsequent years I volunteered on GGl, married Grace, and was delighted that our two sons were able to work there with Grace. When Helen learned from her Brazilian colleague Pedro. Lima that he had netted a wintering Common Tern banded in the Azores, she wondered if Roseate terns from the Azores might also winter in Brazil. At the time, Veronica Neves was the only person banding Roseate Terns in the Azores; Helen reasoned that if more Roseates could be banded, there would be an increased chance others might be netted in Brazil. She asked me if I would be willing to visit the Azores to assist Veronica. So began the first of more than a half dozen trips, two with Grace and one with our younger son Peter, plus a visit to Brazil. The first verified trans-Atlantic record resulted when Peter, as part of the Azorean Roseate team trapped a Roseate his brother Tom had banded 5 months earlier with the GGI team with Pedro in Brazil. Since then, Pedro has netted additional Azorean Roseates there. Our entire family is delighted and honored to have been part of this important research which has enriched my family's lives and brought together conservationists from 3 continents —all thanks to Helen’s vision and enthusiasm.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/a7ca84c0-b1d1-4805-8ffb-4f72edb153ae/IMG_3302.JPG Great Gull Island Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/e6095197-a04c-4ea7-8629-19391ec803a5/IMG_3304.JPG Great Gull Island Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/c933fdd7-434c-4dbe-a8f1-ffdf9c508237/IMG_3303.JPG Great Gull Island Project Pedro Lima “In 1995 I discovered the migration route of Sterna dougallii (Roseate Terns) in the State of Bahia, Brazil on a sandbar in Mangue Seco. In 1996 Helen discovered me because of the dozen bands I recovered from S. dougallii (Roseate Terns) banded by Helen at GGI. From 1997 on, we started to work together. It's been exactly 25 years - half the circle completed by Helen. In these 25 years of working together I could summarize the following discoveries: we discovered the migration route of Sterna hirundo (Common Terns) and S.dougallii (Roseate Terns) from the Azores, Portugal and also the migration of S.dougallii from England. These were major discoveries that changed everything that was known about these two species. We captured thousands of birds in Bahia with bands from North America, the Caribbean, more than a dozen banded birds from the Azores and two S. dougallii banded from England. We monitored more than half of the coast of Brazil for S. dougallii - from the coast of Espírito Santo to Oiapoque in Amapá. We worked hard to get S. dougallii (Roseate Terns) included on the list of endangered species in Brazil. On the north coast of Brazil, we found that Ceará fishermen were killing the birds to remove the bands. Without any kind of coercion, we managed to reverse the situation and bring the fishermen to the side of the fight to protect the terns (S. dougallii) thanks to the intense work of Environmental Education where communities were included in conservation work. 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Please contact us at takingflightproductions@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/ef148c42-8b05-4100-ab92-a65a78f181d0/Full+Circle+Poster+2022.jpg Full Circle - Previously Full Circle was an official selection at the following festivals : EcoBrasilFest, April, 2021 Harlem International Film Festival, New York Vision Award, May, 2021 Buenos Aires International Film Festival, 2021 Nature Without Borders Film Festival, Outstanding Excellence: Ornithology Documentaries, Excellence: Wildlife/Nature Documentaries, June, 2021 New Jersey International Film Festival, Best Documentary, June, 2021 Vancouver Independent Film Festival, Best Production, July, 2021 Flicker's Rhode Island Film Festival, August, 2021 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, August, 2021 Toronto Beaches Film Festival, Best Conservation Film, September, 2021 Catalina Film Festival, September, 2021 Indie Spirit Film Festival, October, 2021 Adirondack Film Festival, November 2021 Montreal Independent Film Festival, November 2021 Weyauwega International Film Festival, November 2021 Online Florida Environmental Film Festival, November 2021 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF), March 2022 The Northern Virginia International Film & Music Festival, April 2022 Reedy Reels Film Festival, April 2022 Glimmerglass Film Days, November 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/e43f5ba2-2c27-43e9-a795-c527f7272375/Brazil.jpeg Full Circle Community leader Dede shows one of the model boats used in the regatta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/602963c3-c503-403c-9023-c2b52bc992b1/ARG1.jpeg Full Circle Looking for terns at Punta Rasa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/583726b5-f6aa-4a91-8a5b-49098d4ff60b/ggi-anne.jpeg Full Circle Heading out to the island - Anne Via and Phillip Townsend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/56973507-dc17-4324-9074-96377042c429/IMG_8498.JPG Full Circle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612f7c609c0f1102c6b11b69/6b059aa8-ad13-4990-b2dd-6b0d1c22f81d/Brazil+6.jpeg Full Circle The festival parade concludes atop one of Quixabá's incredible bluffs. 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