MBFE - Days 19 - 20 - Tall Ships in Coos Bay

It's the weekend.  We didn't hold class today (Sat) because low tide was before lunch and some of the teams may have needed to head out to work low tide.  So it was a down day for the MBFE.

Some of the students headed over to the Coos Bay Boardwalk where two tall ships are currently docked.  These ships, Lady of Washington and The Hawaiian Chieftain, tour far and wide.  They are both tall ships and are worth seeing if you have the chance.

The upper photo shows "The Hawaiian Chieftain" and the lower one "Lady of Washington."

Movie buffs may recognize the Lady of Washington.  This was the ship that represented the HMS Interceptor in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".  It has also appeared in or been the inspiration for ships in television and on the big screen.

Students continue to work hard and make progress on their projects.  It's fulfilling to see what they are doing.  You'd be proud.

Don't look for a posting tomorrow, "Mothers Day", but postings will appear again early next week.

Happy Mothers Day!

Day 21 Part III - What BYU-Idaho Marine Biology Field Experience students do on their day off - Part III

About now you may be wondering if the fun and science ever stops...well, um...it doesn't.

Remember the octopus that Dallas found in Posting #1 for today?  It expired shortly before dinner, so after dinner he dissected it with the rest of the crew looking on (and with some coaching...heh heh).

Dallas was in marine biologist heaven.

A few snips of the scissors later and he exposed the organs housed in the mantle...Elysa and Mackenzie look on.

The yellow structures are the gills...

Here's the buccal bulb, the structure that houses the beak and the radula.  That's the esophagus coming out the bottom of it.

Toward the end we released the contents of the ink sac into the dissection pan...viola - ink!

Here are MBFE class members enjoying one of the rites of passage into marine biology - writing with octopus or squid ink.

Patrick writes the same way he lives his life...in BOLD font!

And Bailey labeled hers...just in case you're not sure what it is.

And last but not least, Dallas does his best imitation of "Davy Jones" from "Pirates of the Caribbean".

And that's a wrap for Day 21's postings.  Three weeks down, one to go.