About - Wednesday Island

Not Just Another Nature Blog

Life-long Love of the Outdoors

When I was growing up, my family loved camping, and we spent many weekends hiking, biking, and canoeing together. To this day, I love outdoor adventure such as hiking and paddling.

I started thinking about launching a website where I can talk about fun and interesting things I come across in the environment and conservation space. I did not want, however, want the focus to be on the doom and gloom so often presented in the news. We get it. But what can we do?

Envisioning Solutions

I remember listening to an episode of the National Geographic podcast Overheard, where Enric Sala, founder of Nat Geo’s Pristine Seas project, shared his experience. Sala, once a professor of marine ecology, spent years studying the impact of humans on the ocean. He described how each new research paper confirmed, with more data and precision, that we are indeed killing marine life everywhere. It felt, he said, like writing the ocean’s obituary.

Realizing this, Sala left academia to focus on finding solutions. He wanted to help cure the ocean rather than simply diagnosing its demise.

More About Me

I am Kristin McGuine, and I have a background in association management as a Graphic Designer and Marketing Communications Manager. I love the field of marketing and communications – From the high-level strategic problem solving to exploring new tactics and tools to achieve goals!

I have been so fortunate to use my skills and expertise for good. One of the reasons working with associations has really resonated with me is that they are, by and large, working for the betterment of our world, within each of their own specialized niches.

And now, I bring my communications experience to my own personal passion for nature and wildlife here, on WednesdayIsland.com.

My Hope for You

First of all, I am super glad you are here!

There are no perfect, or often even straightforward, solutions to the challenges we face preserving our natural environment – preserving it for nature and for us. But I hope this space compels you to adopt a little more awareness and a little more intentionality:

Awareness:

If you don’t know about something, you can’t care about saving it.
The more you know and understand it, the more you can enjoy it.

Intentionality:

We can all take little steps toward reducing our impact.
Lots of little steps add up to a whole stampede of goodness.

So go ahead – explore your world, help conserve all the wonders therein and feel inspired about what is possible in the context of our changing world.

Where in the World IS Wednesday Island, Anyway?

I don’t exactly remember how I settled on the name Wednesday Island for this site. But as I was thinking about that, I wondered if Wednesday Island actually exists anywhere. It turns out, there are at least two:

In Antarctica, Wednesday Island is an island at the east end of Wauwermans Islands in the north part of Wilhelm Archipelago. It was reportedly named for the day on which it was first sighted in the mid-1930s by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE).
The other Wednesday Island is one of hundreds of islands in the Torres Straight off the Cape York Peninsula along the northern coast of Australia. It is also known as Mowaru Island.

Both Wednesday Islands are uninhabited and infrequently visited. So infrequently, in fact, that there is next to no information at all about either on the internet.

And you can find information on anything on the internet, right?!