Beach Day

Normally, I dislike beach days because that means sweat, bugs, and bad tasting salt water. We usually go straight to the beach from the museum and from then until lunch we work on an activity. After we are stuffed with food, so stuffed that you wish school would let out, we get in the water. Once in the water, it’s FULL ON TRAINING!!! NO BACKING DOWN!!!! NO BREAKS!! JUST YOU AND THE WATER…with snorkeling gear. It’s not as extreme as I make it out to be. For most people...but... since I have this near death fear of drowning which makes it hard for me to do anything in water. Yet, that Wednesday started off different. We had our speaker on that day and normally, we don’t have a speaker on a beach day. All that was going in my head was, ‘YAY!!! COUPLE HOURS FROM BEING OUTSIDE IN THAT UNBEARABLE HEAT!!!’ So, we went on our way to RSMAS, where A/C is nice and the seats are comfortable. The talk was alright until the speaker started to explain about one of the processes of surveying fishes. That was just complicated. After the talk we had to the beach but we had a problem... between the normal time for activities and training in the water, we didn’t have enough time. Lucky, having the speaker ahead of time, we were able to push the activity for the next time and went straight to training. After, a bit of training it was beach time. It was pretty fun, hanging around the water and stuff. So in all, it was an all then okay beach time…. For its first day. -Amanda