Its boat day! First thing this morning the group headed out on our research vessel, the Fundy Spray. While on the boat the students observed three different methods of sampling the marine environment: a plankton tow, a scallop drag, and a fish trawl. The students got their hands dirty sorting through the scallop drag and counting all of the sea cucumbers, scallops, sea stars, and other animals that were dragged up from the bottom. Wow, there are lots of sea urchins! Next they conducted a fish trawl in Passamaquoddy Bay and hauled in a bunch of interesting animals including hake, skates, shrimp, lobsters, and octopus. Much to the disappointment of the students we were not allowed to keep the lobsters. Oh well, the chicken for supper was tasty!
This afternoon the group worked with Barb making the connection between art and biology. The students painted marine animals for an ongoing mural which may be featured in the aquarium. There are some pretty good artists in the group. I was impressed!
After supper the group walked into St. Andrews to play kick the can at the giant playground and check out the candy store. Even though they are teenagers the students still had fun playing at the playground! It is a seriously awesome playground!
Don't want to mess with those claws!
sea raven
Art in progress.
The awesome playground!!
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