I'll be out most of the week
Aug. 13th, 2007 08:12 pmOn account of the camping trip we're taking for my scientific diving class, I'll be totally offline Wednesday through Sunday (or possibly Monday, because I'll be back that day but I'll be busy).
Today we got to go the the aquarium before the dive to check out the fish we'd be looking for. Those of you who've been there (valis2?): you know the two-story kelp forest tank? I always saw that and thought "cool, sharks; hey an eel! and some fish. Ho hum." But there are actually a lot of different types of fish if you stand around for a while and look for them. I never noticed that before. We were mostly looking for various types of perch and rockfish. There were also some bigass sea bass and sturgeons. I think I'd be freaked out if one of those came up to me in the ocean. I think some of the sturgeons were bigger than I am. We saw some fish on the dive but not a ton. Today we had to practice the surveying techniques, first counting kelp and then counting fish. A bunch of seals came over to check us out. One followed us almost all the way back to the beach when we were done. It kept tugging on my buddy's fins. So cute!
Today we got to go the the aquarium before the dive to check out the fish we'd be looking for. Those of you who've been there (valis2?): you know the two-story kelp forest tank? I always saw that and thought "cool, sharks; hey an eel! and some fish. Ho hum." But there are actually a lot of different types of fish if you stand around for a while and look for them. I never noticed that before. We were mostly looking for various types of perch and rockfish. There were also some bigass sea bass and sturgeons. I think I'd be freaked out if one of those came up to me in the ocean. I think some of the sturgeons were bigger than I am. We saw some fish on the dive but not a ton. Today we had to practice the surveying techniques, first counting kelp and then counting fish. A bunch of seals came over to check us out. One followed us almost all the way back to the beach when we were done. It kept tugging on my buddy's fins. So cute!