Sunday, May 30, 2010

A beautiful day in Florida pt 3

Hey all its Ryan and Sean here,
Another beautiful day in the Florida Keys started with a seagrass snorkel in 80 degree water at nine in the morning. Got to watch Stevie climb around the mangroves like a monkey. This only starts a list of events involving a gorgeous Sunday in the Florida Keys.  We headed into a part of the Florida Bay called Bush Point, where we saw a variety of fish and aquatic animals, including Seahorses, seastars, and one encounter with the rarest of all fish, the stevie ray. We even saw some sweet underwater flowers.    Snorkeling in the mangroves was a blast- there were so many cool animals, like a GIANT hermit crab. We were able to collect sea urchins, sea squirts, a lettuce slug and a blue eyed scallop. After a delicious dinner of lasagne and garlic bread, our evening lab activity was an investigation of tiny organisms found in the algae on a rock.  Tomorrow we go back to the coral reef!  Well that's about it............. talk to ya later love Sean and Brinks

2 comments:

  1. Mom and Dad Gier :)May 30, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    You are all so lucky to have witnessed a rare fish like the Stevie Ray...we hear that it consumes large amounts of food so BEWARE!

    The pictures are once again beautiful especially the underwater flowers.

    Hope you are all having a wonderful time...

    Miss you bunches Nick...Love you much...can't wait to see what you and Stevie have to report about tomorrow.

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  2. Haha I have heard the stevie ray was very rare. Hope you all have a gret time... Miss you!!

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