11 August 2013 Sunday!

This day started with another load up the truck and make way to the boat for another day in the sea to access sampling sites. Stephanie Smith joined Tara and the Dunton brothers in the field today. After the drop off i made myself breakfast which looks a lot like breakfast at home. Refried beans, scrambled eggs and Pace picante on corn tortillas. Yum!

When we arrived, there was a sailboat moored in the harbor (I think the locals call it a lagoon). Two men were here in an attempt to find the final resting place of an ancestor of theirs who perished in a Canadian Arctic expedition. They did not reach their goal, but hope to return next summer and try again.

One of the local Port Aransas area publications called the "Island Moon" has a segment called "The Traveling Moon" which highlights their newspaper being read in exotic locations. The five of us from Port Aransas got together and took a photo to submit to them.

I did get to meet the teacher with whom I'll be working this year. We talked for a while and have plans to get together this week. She is very familiar with Port Aransas and I am hoping that in the future my students in Port Aransas can communicate with her students here in Kaktovik. In walking back and forth to the school I get many opportunities to talk with the young children here in Kaktovik. I stopped to talk with these boys and they indulged me with a photo.

The team had a third consecutive successful field day which, as you've heard before, means a full evening of processing samples and filtering water.

Thanks for listening, jill