Long long day today. I can't wait till this weekend when my body will finally get to rest! So today was a 9-5 day. Went and got Dr. Botton around 9:30 to make it to NH beach for 10AM. We tagged an impressive 50 crabs within an hour. We tagged for longer than planned so we rushed and got McDonalds then headed to the sound school for 12ish. We got ( Read more... )

Wow, things really turned for the better. I feel like God smiled on me today after my being so upset and disappointed from yesterday. In almost 3 hours me, Gabe, Mark(Dr. Botton), and Guy tagged over 150 horseshoe crabs. And I said to myself "Take that Luc." We went out today at 1:30 and came back to SHU by 6 (because me and Gabe dropped off Guy ( Read more... )

Well day 6 was going GREAT. I was so proud of the progress me and Gabe made. We went out at 6AM and stayed till 11 and tagged 32 crabs. That's awesome compared to the 6 we found the time before. We sweated our butts off and walked a ton today ( Read more... )

*exhales ( Read more... )

Not much to report from yesterday- I brought my car in for an oil change at 9:30 so I had no idea when that would be ready. So I went in around 10:30 to the bio office to input the data from the tagged horseshoe crabs we found. It took way longer than it should have. Gabe came in around 11:45 and she wanted him to put in the SUR/ sonar data from ( Read more... )

I've had a lot more time to think walking on the beach for days and being alone since practically no one's here ( Read more... )

Ok to begin with, this is what I wrote in my field notebook to pass the time because there was a point the first two days where me and Gabe were just well, dumbstruck. haha.

Captain's Log:
Day 1: May 22, 2006 11:30AM-4:30PMCrabs? What crabs? Three New Haven beaches and only found 2 dead crabs. I fear our search is in vain. Or it's just too damn ( Read more... )