Blog Credits: Olivia, Annalise, and Grey

The day started off with the usual: wake-up, breakfast and packing lunch, and preparing to leave. This morning, we headed off to Krystal Acres to work with Charlotte Kratovile-Lavelle, helping to water trees that had been planted in a large field next to a small pond. All of the saplings also had a green plastic cover encircling them to stop deer from eating and killing them.

Charlotte first explained to us the some of the history of the area we were in and the work she (as part of the Island Conservation Corp) was doing, and then we began going around flagging saplings to mark which of them were still alive. After that, we formed a sort of assembly line, with two people filling large buckets with water from the pond, and then passing them off to everyone else to go water all of the flagged saplings. We then used a blue flag to mark that the sapling had been watered.

After a couple of hours, everyone was tired, and it was time to grab all of the gear and head out.

Then we were given a surprise of ice cream! We walked around the cute village and docks while savoring our well earned treat.

After finishing our ice cream, we got into the van and headed over to Mount Grant to eat lunch. We were high enough to see in all directions and played a fun game of guessing which way was North (everyone failed terribly).

Very full and happy, we headed back to the house to have project time to work on our debate prep and final projects.

After working very hard, we all attended a lecture at Friday Harbor Labs on the importance of preserving specimens. After a very interesting, but long, lecture, we were all very hungry and went back to the house to eat dinner. After a busy day, we had the luxury of free time after dinner. Everyone relaxed and went to bed excited for the next day!