I got Monday morning off which was nice because the weekend was so busy I didn’t feel recovered enough for another week to begin so soon. My sister and grandmother arrived yesterday. Ha and I thought I was going to have to spend a lot of my summer alone. False. I’ve actually had quite a few guests! Anyways, it was my grandma’s birthday so we went out to a nice lunch in Beaufort before I had to check into work. I brought Madelyn along so she could check out the lab and watch us in action. We headed out to the Aquarium, our final fish site for the week!!!! It was a scorcher out…probably 93 degrees plus humidity. Really really toasty in the marsh. Covered in mud, sweat, and bug spray, we rolled back into the lab to sort fish in the late afternoon. Nothing out of the ordinary was captured this time.
12 am: Back to the marsh. Probably the most difficult night out because forced myself to stay up until I had to leave. Also, really high tide and lots of area to cover (we all did 4 sites rather than 2). But it was really neat to be out in the marsh when everything was dark, still, and quiet. I stopped looked up and could see stars from horizon to horizon. Actually quite peaceful. Luckily the water was still boiling hot from earlier. I could literally have taken a bath in it.
6am: back to the marsh. I almost overslept this morning….ran out the door with a bagel in one hand and booties in the other. It was good to be out in the marsh early though. Nice and cool. I could tell it was going to be even warmer today. Our work was speedy but with 4 people, it was a workout trying to get all of our equipment back together.
8am: Counting fish in the lab. The last time for a week! Hooray. And thankfully we didn’t catch too much this morning.
11:00 Best news: “You guys can go home and relax!”
Off for the rest of the day!!!! What to do with myself?? Beach and soccer. Simple enough. The beach was hot hot hot. The sand was in fire and even the ocean was warm.
We headed into Morehead for the evening to watch the weigh ins for the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. It is one of the biggest events in town and draws quite a large crowd from all over. This year they have 153 boats; combined worth millions of dollars. Yesterday someone caught an 883 pound marlin, the tournament record!!!!! We got to see dolphin and wahoo weighed. Quite a difference from the fish I work with. We also spotted Seafarer girls from Camp 4 headed to eat at the Sanitary. Good times : )
Then dinner at the Ruddy Duck except that I had another visitor. Adam from school came up to hang out for the weekend. More catching up time with friends. Lovin’ it
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