This past weekend, Jes and I took 10 of our high school Bay Club students to the Eastern Shore to the VIMS lab there. It was the last meeting for a year long club that we started this year. After making it through terrible traffic, and high winds, we made it to the lab in Wachapreague in time to get all of our stuff settled and play a game of "Never Have I Ever". Saturday was the big field day. Three of the Eastern Shore Lab's staff took us out in two skiffs to do several types of sampling and exploring - mud flats, dredging, trawling, plankton tows, island cross section hikes, beach/shell collecting, etc. We had a great time and got to see many things that we wouldn't have seen here
on our usual field trips (like chitons, sponges, urchins, whelks, etc.). It was really cold and rainy, but that didn't stop us from doing everything we wanted to do. The afternoon was spent in the lab, identifying all of the species we caught. Saturday night, we made t-shirts, watched a video, and played a Spoons tournament (card game for those of you who have
never played - or attended one of our overnight programs b/c we always play spoons). We did get a chance to stop at the Fisherman's Island Wildlife Refuge
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/easternshore/ on the way back on Sunday and at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I've definitely going to miss those kids and the eastern shore. We had such a great time! I can't wait to take another group back.
This past weekend, Jes and I took 10 of our high school Bay Club students to the Eastern Shore to the VIMS lab there. It was the last meeting for a year long club that we started this year. After making it through terrible traffic, and high winds, we made it to the lab in Wachapreague in time to get all of our stuff settled and play a game of "Never Have I Ever". Saturday was the big field day. Three of the Eastern Shore Lab's staff took us out in two skiffs to do several types of sampling and exploring - mud flats, dredging, trawling, plankton tows, island cross section hikes, beach/shell collecting, etc. We had a great time and got to see many things that we wouldn't have seen here 
on our usual field trips (like chitons, sponges, urchins, whelks, etc.). It was really cold and rainy, but that didn't stop us from doing everything we wanted to do. The afternoon was spent in the lab, identifying all of the species we caught. Saturday night, we made t-shirts, watched a video, and played a Spoons tournament (card game for those of you who have 
never played - or attended one of our overnight programs b/c we always play spoons). We did get a chance to stop at the Fisherman's Island Wildlife Refuge http://www.fws.gov/northeast/easternshore/ on the way back on Sunday and at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I've definitely going to miss those kids and the eastern shore. We had such a great time! I can't wait to take another group back.
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