Beachcombing
During the recent Inter-Emirates Weekend 2018, the ENHG’s Bish Brown Award was given to a husband-wife ‘team,’ Keith and May Yoke Taylor, who flew back from Hungary, where they now live after 17 years in the Emirates. The award was created to grant recognition to people who have contributed in a significant way to the promotion of public awareness of natural history through their efforts with the ENHG’s various groups. Keith and May Yoke were extensively involved in ENHG Abu Dhabi; in the below poem, ‘Beachcombing,’ which Keith has graciously allowed us to post here, he describes the ENHG as being composed of nature-loving people who are a ‘community that has claimed me for life.’ Of the couple’s history within the group, he wrote: In the course of our excursions in this region, the two of us developed into something of a writer/photographer team, using the medium of the ENHG-Abu Dhabi’s Focus newsletter to record and report our natural history observations, follo