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This morning I took the weather, which of course was last done by me all that
time ago… so not good. The lab was also set-up ready for the newly invented
invert-o-rama and then we set out to collect some marine specimens.
The
student enjoyed the day hike on the reef as much as the one last night, and the
students that missed that session from being too tired were as enthusiastic as
those that made it out. I held a small Blue-Phase Guineafowl Pufferfish and
later had a wrestle with a huge crab hiding in a rock using a stick, and won
(Dean - 1, Nature - 0).
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| I Couldn't Wait To Get My Hands On A Fish (D.Philpot) |
After
snack, which I always forget the cooks make with the presence of student
groups, we looked at invertebrates under microscopes and when finished I
photographed and documented a new species of Nudibranch Sea Slug for DL to send
to InBio and an expert on them who previously visited with the Mollusc people.
This species was new to the area and appeared to look like a flatworm when I first saw it.
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| Brittlestars For Our Marine Collection (D.Philpot) |
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| Sea Urchins (D.Philpot) |
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| Another Photo Of Me And A Puffer (D.Philpot) |
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| Unknown Seaslug (D.Philpot) |
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| Beautiful Nudibranch Frills (D.Philpot) |
This
evening I played a drawing game with Kat where we had to give one another
something to draw under different categories - and all I can say is most people
that saw laughed at Kat's drawing skills, in a good way. We then had a fish
lecture which was actually delivered pretty poorly due to using a different
media player for the fish video and jumping ahead to other less common fish
instead. I originally wrote a reason the presentation was good here but it does
not make any sense at all so I have left it out. I stayed behind to backup my
photos, which I did but I felt very ill afterwards because of the small jabs
air-conditioning (or AC).
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| Nuclear Sky (D.Philpot) |