Today we started off the day collecting samples from the bay for our invertebrate lab in the afternoon.
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| The pier down the hill from campus |
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| Starting our collections! |
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| Sponge! |
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| An even bigger sponge!! |
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| Tara getting in to join the fun! |
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| Finding clams |
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| Are you cool enough for the clam club? |
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| You can't be crabby when you start your day like this! In the afternoon, we got to check out our samples under the microscope. I FOUND NUDIBRANCHS!!! They are my absolutely favorite invertebrate!! They were juvenile nudibranchs (sea slugs) so they were very very tiny. We got some better photos on the microscope camera so those will come later. We found two different species one Red-Gilled Nudibranchs and Tergipes despectus. We also found a ton of other amazing critters too!
   Tergipes despectus  NUDIBRANCHS!!!!  <3  |
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| Some serious nudibranch side eye. |
Lindsey and I ended up staying in lab until dinner doing a nudibranch photoshoot with the microscope camera. After dinner we had one last lecture before heading back to our rooms and relaxing.
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