We started our adventure of the day at Fourth of July beach where we met with Olivia Graham, a PHD student who studied at Cornell University and has a bachelor’s degree in biology. She explained throughly her work on the diseased eelgrass in San Juan Island. We were able to wade in the water for a little bit and picked up some sea lettuce.

We got our hands in the water as she pointed out many things in the water. We found cool things in the bed of eel grass. It was very cool because the tide was going up as we waded in the water! Over all the amount of things that live in the bed of eel grass are amazing.

In the eel grass bed we found donut/seed like balls which turned out to be eggs! They were snail eggs which are really fascinating because there are lots of snails that live in that habitat. We found other things like worms and crabs while we were there. Overall a really great experience and enjoyable afternoon activity!

Lastly, we walked to the Friday Harbor Lab dock and met with Erika Nilson, the executive assistant at the SeaDoc Society. She talked to us about the work SeaDoc Society has done in the past as well as offered us some advice on the projects we are currently working on. We asked her an abundance of questions that are vital to our projects’ success. Today was definitely a great day to go out!