{"id":8905,"date":"2026-06-30T23:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:51:49","slug":"day-10-when-theres-a-whale-theres-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/day-10-when-theres-a-whale-theres-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10: When There’s a Whale, There’s a Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blog Credits: Olivia, Maxene, Silas, Kashi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spirits were high this morning. We started off this morning with an extra hour of sleep, and woke up to a hot breakfast of eggs and donuts (kudos to Tom).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fog over 4th of July beach Credit: Silas<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although the weather was gloomy, we loaded into the vans to go to 4th of July Beach to meet Kate Kelly, a PhD student studying eelgrass wasting disease. After a couple minutes of sloshing through the marshy shore, we reached our destination and started our surveying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Student standing in the water (L to R: Isla, Violet, Addie, Silas, Alice, Aoife, Maxene) Credit: Olivia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A fantastic find! Credit: Alice<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helping Kate set up a transit for eelgrass! \ud83d\ude42 Credit: Olivia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lunch found us on a bluff overlooking the shore, where we enjoyed beautiful views, an Orca sighting, and some (almost) successful fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Orca sighting! Credit: Olivia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We later met with Shauna Barrows, to assist her in cleaning up a restoration site on the West side of San Juan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Una, Eva, and Addy, ready to trim some plants! Credit: Olivia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog Credits: Olivia, Maxene, Silas, Kashi Spirits were high this morning. We started off this morning with an extra hour of sleep, and woke up to a hot breakfast of eggs and donuts (kudos to Tom).\u00a0 Although the weather was gloomy, we loaded into the vans to go to 4th of July Beach to meet Kate Kelly, a PhD student studying eelgrass wasting disease. After a couple minutes of sloshing through the marshy shore, we reached our destination and started our surveying. Lunch found us on a bluff overlooking the shore, where we enjoyed beautiful views, an Orca sighting, and some (almost) successful fishing.  We later met with Shauna Barrows, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}