I'll write a little bit about the last couple days at Magueyes. We couldn't snorkel the second day and so everyone was not in the best of moods. We were all devastated pretty much. So instead we constructed a food web of the marine life in the morning and in the afternoon, we visited the fish museum. It was a room filled with bottles of fish that have been preserved since the 50s. It was pretty cool. The people working there were working on reorganizing it based on evolutionary order. Then we collected flora and fauna from land and made a food web based on those findings. After dinskies, made by Nick, we picked through iguana poop to see what they eat. They are strictly vegetarians. Niv and I played some hangman, which is always fun. Then we had a night out on the town - drank a little and played some pool. We got back to the island and hung out on top of the hill where there's a gazebo and a hammock. Got 5,000 bug bites. Nicole, Yvonne, and I stayed up til 4:30 that night when we had to get up at 7.
Yesterday, we literally spent the entire day on the bus, which none of us realized was going to happen. We stopped at the salt mines, checked out sea monkeys, applebees for lunch, coldstone and walmart, and then BAT CAVES! That was the coolest. Since my knee is a little messed up, Nicole, Yvonne, and Nick took turns carrying me. We finally got back to the station at 8 pm. We were driving from 8 to 8. The shower felt great and I slept so well.
Today, Greg and I started our day off at 8. We watched pollination activity from 8 to 11 am and then from 2 to 5. I slept in between the two sessions. So we recorded what species visited this flowering plant and how often they came. We will be comparing that data with an introduced flowering plant of the same species and seeing if there is any difference. It would be just embarrassing if there was no difference.
These are the two plants we are comparing.
Right now I'm icing my knee.
It's been raining off and on all day.
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