Day 4-Joe

"You can't catch me"

The current mental state the lizard crew.

We drew blood!

Staying positive without any fish.

Hello all! Today started off again with another morning snorkel adventure to the reefs. The entire class witnessed all sorts of interesting fish and sea critters including sharks, barracudas, goldentail moray eel, and my personal favorite, blue tang! The sea sickness situation is improving and everyone was able to spend a little bit of time in the water. After snorkeling and lunch, the fish and lizard groups went their seperate ways to continue the pursuit towards solving their respective biological questions. The lizard group sped off to the botanical garden to catch anoles. A successful trip left them with seventeen specimens to study. The fish group (the better of the two groups) went to collect the Rivulus traps that had been previously empty for the past two days. Down on our luck, however; we perservered. A different species of fish, Gambusia , were collected, and the experimental design was revamped. All of the groups experiments are currently underway and despite previous challenges, everything is proceeding "swimmingly." Pun intended :-) The lizard group is commenting on the intricate process of proposal writing, as well as the trials and tribulations of toe pad measurement. The best group made leaps and bounds on keeping fish alive and finally drawing blood to obtain a lactate reading! The sun is shining and spirits are high as we approach the fourth day of snorkeling and another day of research!!!!!

P.S. The lizard group is having trouble holding on to their anoles!