Ah Reader! What a day that was! Our last field trip for the course (that won't be related to our end of term projects) was today and boy was it a good one! It's sad to say that we won't be having any more class trips but at the same time it's getting to be crunch time and we really need to power through the next week and a half if we want to finish everything on time. We've still got three phyla to cover before our end of term projects start (I'll be explaining the whole end of term project thing in a later entry)! It's time to get busy!
Anyways, we spent the entire morning (got there around 8:00am) and a little bit of the afternoon at 'The Great Tide Pool' which is basically a closed off little bay on an island. It was, for lack of a better word, great! We snorkelled the tide pool and saw some pretty incredible things! Several huge sea cucumbers, a white sponge I'd never seen before, bat stars, little fish and numerous types of crabs. The snorkel was great because the water was cold and clear (WAY better than the silty inlet that we snorkelled last time). By the time I got out of the water it was nearly lunch time. We all had our bagged lunches just sitting on the rocks and enjoying the sunshine (luckily it was one of the nicest days yet)! After eating lunch I went off exploring some of the rocky areas around the tide pool in the hopes of finding a sea lion but no luck on that front.
We headed out from the tide pool around 2:00pm and got back to Bamfield at about 2:40pm after an awesome boat ride. You see The Great Tide Pool is on an island in the Broken Group which is quite far from Bamfield. We got to ride the big boat with Skipper John at the wheel! We went SO fast and the waves were pretty big today so it made the ride a lot more entertaining. Not to mention the fact that Skipper John quoted South Park which in itself made the trip (note that Skipper John is like 65 years old and yet he quoted South Park, incredible). It was an amazing trip back with the sunshine and the sea breeze! You know those moments that seem to require a soundtrack? That was one of them.
Alright well by now you guys know that the title of my entry is normally explained in the second last paragraph and that is indeed the case for this entry. Today I was finally initiated 'officially' as a true Bamfield gal! You see we have a certain fashion trend around here that we call 'Bamfield Chique' which is basically shorts with rubber boots. If you wear this fashion statement enough you get a rubber boots tan where your shins are white and the rest of your leg is tanned. Well Reader, today it happened! I have the rubber boots tan! It's pretty bad actually... I think it's worse than a farmer's tan (which I also kind of have). Either way, I'm a true member of the Bamfield community! Hooray for me!
That's about it for today Reader! I can't believe how long it's been since I've seen you guys but then again it'll be no time before I get to see you again! I hope you enjoy this picture of my 'Bamfield Chique' tan! I know that I do! I miss and love you all so much! Keep on reading and keep on thinking of me because you know I'll be thinking of you!
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