By Sasha, Alaina, Josephine, Sid

We spent the morning testing kelp and seaweeds with Lucy Hensley, an undergrad student at Bates College. We cut out standardized shapes of bull kelp (and other seaweeds) and used their MTS machine to pull the seaweed apart to test the strain and stress. Seeing and participating in the data collection at Friday Harbor Labs was super interesting.

There were lots of cool ratfish in the labs!

Later in the afternoon, we headed to Eagle Cove for a fun beach day, where we had sandwiches and graham crackers for lunch. The water was super cold, but we braved it anyway.

We took advantage of the low tide to draw a big fish on the sand. Super fun!

We went back home the long way to see Mount Baker from the coast; it was finally a clear day! Seeing the mountain even from so far away was breathtaking.

For dinner, we ate fried rice with the amazing Aisha Rashid, who works for Wild Orca. The day was super fun, and the good weather put us all in a great mood. We are going night-lighting later tonight back at Friday Harbor Labs, super exciting!