Yes... I am two days into the trip and already I have seen some amazing things. Tonight, some of the class took a journey down to the docks to watch all the crazy bioluminescent creatures in the water! It was crazy :) There were no big fish to disturb large patches of the water and make them glow, but the jellies were out in force and there were hundreds of small shrimp mixed among them. Last night we saw some massive polychaete worms swimming around in the water by the transient docks.
There have been many other great surprises on this trip. Today we met a research team from the University of New Brunswick who were diving to collect seaweed samples and logging the diversity of species found in B.C. waters. They collected some neat organisms for us on their second dive including Puget Sound King Crab, many beautiful subtidal nudibranch, a blood star, and a plethora of other species. These we took back with us to study in the wet lab.
The roads on this island are pretty crazy :) Pictures of species will follow soon, but it is time to catch some sleep before being woken up by the prof running around shouting the random Latin species name of the day to wake us up. I would write more, but unfortunately time will not allow for that at the moment. We have our first paper due tomorrow and are going to try and net some different fish species to study!
Fair Winds
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