One fish, two fish

Well, it's been awhile since I posted last.

The last few days have been full of data collection.  My second project was fish identification.  We ran five transects at each site, and had to identify and tally every fish we saw.  Thankfully, one of my group members is an expert at identifying fish, so we had no trouble there.  Honestly, the worst part of the data collection was at Five Fingers Reef, where the current was extremely strong.  The transects were run with the current, so we would drift along, counting fish, but then we had to swim back up against the current to get to our next transect.  Needless to say, that was probably the greatest workout I've gotten since I got to Australia.

Today, we are finishing our reports, and taking our exam, which is a one hour essay.  We've been told that it will be about global climate change, so it shouldn't be too hard.  After that, all we have left is to give our presentations tomorrow, and then we head back to civilization.  It's been great camping out every night, but I'm going to be happy to have access to fresh water.

Cheers!

KK