Today was a nice relaxed day. I went for my usual morning walk at sunrise and no death events occurred so I counted it as a good walk. I had breakfast and then went for my first observation snorkel for my project. I swam for 30 min looking for rays and didn't see any. This was probably due to the wind blowing like crazy and trying to swim in the strong current made me flail a lot and make a lot of noise which scared any local rays away. On a positive note, I walked the beach and recorded the rays I saw, which was a few so my project isn't a bust. Lunch happened and then me and my partner wrote some stuff for our report on our project. We went out for a low tide observation of rays and didn't find any at all. There is a lagoon that surrounds Heron Island and the low tide made the entire lagoon have about 2 feet of water for a long ways out. This probably means all the rays go away because the water is so low, or at least it makes me feel better believing that when we don't see any rays. Most of the rest of the day was spent enjoying the island since we are given all of the day to work on our projects. My group will be continuing to observe tomorrow and Friday (one day ahead from the states over here) so the next few days should be some observing and relaxing on this beautiful island. Yesterday there was seagull chilling in the water dunking his head and it was pretty funny. I forgot about to write about it yesterday but remembered because I took a video of it. The sunset was pretty sweet this night. Since the tide was so low, there was a bunch of pools and the sunset reflected off of them. It was amazing. Dinner happened and the rest of the night was spent relaxing on a cool little island off the coast of Australia. Bonus: Pat, our incredible cook, is the guy smiling at the sunset
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About MeI am the guy whose name is on the top there. I am a student who graduated with a BA from USU this year and finally gave in to Dr. Atwood's pestering to go on her Heron Island Class for coral reefs. People often call me really sassy and unhappy. What they don't know is that my resting face is angry, but I am usually pretty happy. ArchivesCategories |