Okay, so today has been wild. We had some breakfast before
quickly jumping in the water to do part of our fish lab while it was still high
tide. We went to Attenborough’s Point (where he first filmed one of his
documentaries and has done so again more recently) where we climbed over the
rock ridge and into the water. It wasn’t anything super spectacular, and the
lab was fairly hard. Basically we laid these transects down in the water and
then videoed all the fish we saw along it using the GoPro. However, it was
fairly windy out so we were being tossed about a little bit, though it wasn’t a
whole lot. It was hard to keep the camera steady and swim at a slow pace with
it like that outside, but it worked out well enough. I was partnered with Clark
today, who hasn’t used GoPros before but now he seems fairly comfortable with
it so I count that as a win. He’s really awesome and we were even able to talk
Undertale and Pokemon for a little bit.
After the first part of the field work was done, we went
back to the lab and watched our videos to try and identify and categorize all
the fish that we caught in the water. It didn’t take as long as I thought it
would, but we had a fair amount of sandy patches along both of our transect
lines so I think it must have been that. We were even back in time for tea time
here at the research station. Pat is amazing and made these apricot cinnamon
muffins with strawberry jelly blobs (but no tea for me thank you). It was so
good, and I think one of the guys actually cried. After that, we were all just
working on things until lunch or singing the Bohemian Rhapsody. It was really
fun to sing to that song since some of us aren’t great singers. Lunch was a
good sub sandwich with chicken and tomato that was awesome, and once again Pat
is amazing.
We headed back out into the field after that to take low
tide videos. These were so much easier, but still kind of tiring. They are
really working us hard here. I know a good number of us are more or less
passing out on the bed at nights. Russ, Sam, and Zach even caught a cold of
sorts, where they are really congested. They were assigned in a group today so
we’ve been teasing that they are in quarantine on and off. It’s been fun. They
take it in good humour and even make the jokes themselves sometimes. We once
again had to look at the videos and this time we did the rest of the work and
wrote up our lab reports. Once again, we hung out and generally tried to study
for our test tomorrow. It’s gonna be a rough one because of the scientific
names. I’m hoping I can remember more of the fish section than I am currently
able to. Well, we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
Sunset was at the jetty like usual, but this time the scUber
was there and it made all the marine animals that were usually swimming about
avoid the area. It was very annoying, and I don’t know why they offer a
submarine uber here??? It doesn’t really make any sense, but to each their own
I guess. Dinner was wonderful and beyond words. Pat made this delicious beef
and potato dish that was absolutely divine, and there was a good side of broccoli
that was calling my name! And dessert was even better!!! It was an apple tart.
I was in heaven. I can die peacefully now. But seriously guys, Pat needs to
write a cookbook or something because what he does is amazing. And he’s super
nice too! Brynn, Clark, Hailey, and I talked with him for a little yesterday,
and he’s really chill.
Well, I think that’s all for tonight. I really have to
study. Talk to you all tomorrow!
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