Dear friends and acquaintances,

Today, the pelicans lost their best friend. At 3.25am on Sunday the 14th of October, our beloved Lance died in my arms at Lismore Base Hospital.

He suffered a stroke late Saturday morning at the Centre and was conveyed to Ballina Hospital by ambulance, before being transferred to Lismore around 1pm.

He was able to communicate for several hours whilst the dedicated nursing staff in Emergency worked on the man they knew had spent so much of his life saving lives ... the pelican needed Ivomec, the turtle needed squid, 2 turtles were tagged and could be released, and something about a silver gull and an entangled Loggerhead at Evans Head....

Lance was so proud of ASR, the new crews who have expanded the network and extended our work, and all our achievements. I dont know how to find the words to honour the man who was so hard to love but yet gave so much.

Lance exhausted himself for the ASR mission. If, now, you ask yourself, "What can I do?" then my answer is, whatever you can to honour that mission, his vision.

With love and the deepest sorrow.... Marny.

"If pelicans could cry, there would be a wailing around the nation that could not be ignored."

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