Well, sadly this is our last full day in Puerto Penasco. It was celebrated with getting to sleep in a whole extra hour until 8am, which was much appreciated after our bonfire, gossip hours last night.
I have had a great week, swimming with the sea lions on Sunday was an amazing experience. I was very scared at first but then I just decided to float and let it be. It was crazy, I got so close. One sea lion was looking the other way and almost ran right into me. We both realized at the same time and both of our eyes bulged out in shock that the other one was there. Mackenzie let me use her underwater camera so hopefully I'll have some good pictures to show later. To revive me after snorkeling and kayaking the day before the tour included delicious home made burritos. I ate mine with my feet off the side of the boat, soaking in the sunshine and watching all the sea lions play and birds flying. That night we did some more shopping and had dinner down town at the Blue Marlin. Fresh shrimp tacos, yummy!
this morning we explored the rocky intertidal and found some pretty interesting critters. The one I enjoyed the most was a baby Sun Star that Elizabeth found just before we left. It was nice to see because we had done a presentation on Echinodermata yesterday, which is the phylum Sun Stars belong to, so after reading all about it we got to see it up close, touch it, and take pictures. Of course we still saw a lot of urchins, hermit crabs and even some shrimpies!
Comparing what we saw today at the rocky intertidal to what we saw at the soft sediment intertidal I got a better understand of what sea creatures live where. Snails and blue crabs were abundant in the soft sand, where chiton and anemones live in rocky areas.
Outside of that I'm enjoying my last day of beautiful ocean views, and looking forward to falling asleep to nothing but the sound of waves and the stars above me.
I have had a great week, swimming with the sea lions on Sunday was an amazing experience. I was very scared at first but then I just decided to float and let it be. It was crazy, I got so close. One sea lion was looking the other way and almost ran right into me. We both realized at the same time and both of our eyes bulged out in shock that the other one was there. Mackenzie let me use her underwater camera so hopefully I'll have some good pictures to show later. To revive me after snorkeling and kayaking the day before the tour included delicious home made burritos. I ate mine with my feet off the side of the boat, soaking in the sunshine and watching all the sea lions play and birds flying. That night we did some more shopping and had dinner down town at the Blue Marlin. Fresh shrimp tacos, yummy!
this morning we explored the rocky intertidal and found some pretty interesting critters. The one I enjoyed the most was a baby Sun Star that Elizabeth found just before we left. It was nice to see because we had done a presentation on Echinodermata yesterday, which is the phylum Sun Stars belong to, so after reading all about it we got to see it up close, touch it, and take pictures. Of course we still saw a lot of urchins, hermit crabs and even some shrimpies!
Outside of that I'm enjoying my last day of beautiful ocean views, and looking forward to falling asleep to nothing but the sound of waves and the stars above me.
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