The dates are a bit mixed guys because I could'nt get on to complete the web blog...... so day 3 in your minds is actually Thursday 5th July!
This is our skipper Graham opposite!
I forgot to mention yesterday, the massive plankton bloom we found right down to 20 m, it was quite inshore......... but no sharks were sighted!!! So to forget about a zero on the sharkometer, I decided to play footie for the staff side, I was the only female on the pitch...... a female Ronaldo, as I set up a few shots and saved one goal and tackled some of the bigger guys.... yes the staff lost 6-1 but I saved one goal!!
In the marina, we bumped into an awesome rib.... It was a tourist rib ferrying tourists to and fro around the coast looking for cetaceans and sharks... in the last 2 weeks he has sighted no basking sharks so it was a bit of a gloomy start to the day and it was still wet!!! Things are not as they should be in our seas right now was the gentlemans response, they had had numerous sightings 4 weeks ago but with the weather and earlier plankton blooms....... right now they were seeing nothing!
So today was not a good day, I was ill again as it was very choppy and the students had to change their plans due to weather conditions, not a great day for seeing basking sharks!! Although close to shore we did spot a fin.... but it disappeared so fast we didnt get a proper look, but we remained optimistic......... we would find these sharks and sample plankton in their vacinity.... we had considered buying a shark suit and getting in the water, or maybe using one fo our eager students to do it for us with the prospect of getting a 70% for their fieldcourse!! But none obliged!!!
So it was off to the filedcourse quiz and after a thrashing on the footie pitch, my team thrashed both higher members of the academic food chain and all the students!!!
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