Day 5: Projects at Tuffy’s and Night Seining
Today we finished our projects at Tuffy and Pillar Coral and continued to target species. Although our start was a little difficult, we began to grow sea legs and successfully completed our tasks. While diligently working on our projects, some interesting organisms were spotted, including barracuda, large hound fish (my personal favorite), a spotted eel, spiny lobster, and more stingrays. We determined the results to our “edge of your seat” conch race. Conch are very pretty, but not what most consider fast. Matt slid into first place with the number eleven conch. And what would a victory be without a souvenir picture kissing his speedy Mollusk to remember the glorious moment?! Tonight we will seine the beach and see what kind of critters we can catch. There will be more on the screams of the night seine tomorrow, along with the happenings of the day. We are probably a little hotter, sweatier, and much damper than those in the States, but we are having a great time, and are thankful that we had such an opportunity.

By Alexandra Levesque