Wow I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted! I would apologize Reader but seriously, you wouldn't want to read a daily update this week. There is not enough going on for that. I will however give you an update on the last couple of days since they were our data collection days and some pretty wild stuff happened out there! By the way, I'm coming home in t-minus four days. No big deal.
Sunday morning we were up bright and early at 5:00am to go and beat the low tide up Grappler Inlet. We made it just as the low tide was going slack and began our survey. As I mentioned in a prior post, we are doing a survey of mollusc diversity in mudflats. Exciting right? (Haha, I can picture Amber's face at that remark.) Anyways we went about our business counting and identifying the molluscan species we found and we did this for about three hours without being disturbed. All of a sudden we hear a loud noise coming from the forest behind us and out comes this black bear! I couldn't believe how close it was to us! Needless to say I was scared out of my mind. So I picked up my shovel and bucket and started making as much noise as I possibly could've. We started backing away slowly from the bear and luckily the sound I was making seemed to disturb it because it left our study site. We were pretty on edge that morning since we were worried the bear would come back but it never did (thank goodness). It was at that moment that I thought of one of my favorite moments from the Office where Jim asks Dwight which is the best bear and before Dwight can even answer Jim says, "Wrong. Black bear.". Priceless! So I of course needed to spout the classic line.
Yesterday was the same routine. We went out at about 5:30am to Bamfield Inlet and counted/identified molluscs all morning. I will say that I'm now pretty much amazing at identifying bivalves. Show me a clam and I'll know what it is. Again, no big deal. (My favorite bivalve? Probably Mya arenaria since when I found it in the field I named it 'Squished McGoo'. The scientific name is definitely not as cool as the name I gave it.)
So that's about it for me Reader! The next two days will be spent finishing up my report for this project as well as working on the presentation which we'll be giving on Friday. Saturday morning I'll be waking up bright and early and catching the shuttle out of here. Can you believe it? How has it been six weeks already?! It's craziness. That's all I can say. I miss and love you all!
PS: A special shout out to my amazing Sib Syb who not only made me cry with her amazing package that she mailed to me out here but who is starting her last year of highschool today. It's SO hard to believe! I love you so much G! You're the best sister in the whole world and I'm not braggin'. (Did you like that reference? XD)
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