The day started off nice and easy to help recover from a long kayaking trip. As everyone got up slowly and ate breakfast, the group worked together to catch up on blog posts from our kayaking hiatus. The slow morning was much appreciated as we counted bug bites, marveled at new tan lines, and nursed sunburns. Unfortunately Shauna Barrows, Field Assistant, from the San Juan County Land Bank had a late change of plans and was unable to take us upĀ Mt. Grant where we would have started to learn about watersheds; thankfully she was able to reschedule for Friday. Instead, we decided to start at False Bay, which would have originally been our final destination for the lesson on watersheds. At around 11:00 we started with an introduction video to life in False Bay produced by San Juan Conservation and featuring Dr. Drew Harvell of Cornell University, a famous marine biologist and author of the new book Ocean Outbreak. After the video ended we prepared our lunches, and picked out our boots. We then loaded ourselves inside of the van and made our way off to False Bay. When we arrived, the tide had already started to rise again so we had to be fast to observe the life living within the bay. Throughout the next few hours, we saw a lot of crabs, sculpins, mounds of seaweed, and various types of algae. Our handy identification sheets allowed us to notice small differences between various species. After returning from False Bay, we cleaned off our boots and were allotted some more time for free time, which we spent exploring Friday Harbor, napping, and hanging out in the common space to continue the recovery process. Dinner, which was various types of burgers as requested by us on the return day of the kayak trip, was quite enjoyable for all of us.