22:00 Today we had a further history of
Cabo Blanco talk followed by a fish lecture from ML, where I do like his
version of the talk but it also really made me look forward to maybe giving it
myself one day as I could pinpoint a couple of improvements. The power actually went out so we had to save
the fish video for later. This video, as
I haven’t mentioned it before, simply goes through some of the common and rare
but interesting fish that were filmed out in the lagoon where students would
shortly be after seeing the footage. The
students were given Fish Flash Cards to sort extensively instead of having both
materials before we got into the water.
I opted to lead the “beginner group” who
turned out to be practically experts including a red headed girl and a guy who
took a new GoPro camera out on his head to capture the whole snorkel session in
HD. The red head spotted a Nudibranch
(Sea Slug) alone and after swimming an anticlockwise circuit of the lagoon we
swam back and bumped into a turtle.
Almost immediately I took a second group
out in the same manner/arrangement where this time I saw the smallest juvenile
puffer ever that was literally only about 1 cm (yes, one centimetre) in
length. We also saw a Pale-nosed Moray
again and another turtle upon returning and calling it an afternoon.
A video of one of the turtles can be seen here in Video 86.
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| Hawkfish Camoflauge (D.Philpot) |
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| Hide And Go Peek (D.Philpot) |
I actually got pretty painful leg cramps and
so I was actually busy rubbing my legs instead of following this turtle with everyone
else, at which point I spotted my first Banded Serano - however no photo.
This evening we didn’t really do much, I
spoke to DL about trees and we just saw another Snake species (A chunk-headed Snake) as well as a Mite - which I did get a photo of unlike the Snake.
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| A Mite, None Like These In England (D.Philpot) |
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