We began day two of tile collections this morning at 7:45 am. I showed up a little late at 7:47 am and found my dive equipment out and ready to go since Tom nicely decided to get out my stuff. Although we planned to be leaving by 8, we actually left at around 8:10 and got into the water at around 8:20. Today was the worst visibility that I have seen out at the fore reef so far. It could not have been better than 70 ft, which to be honest is good by any other standard. The cloud cover certainly did not help either. Today we had 3 dive teams and each did a site. That was a lot easier than yesterday where Tom and I alone did three sites. After we finished, similar to yesterday, we headed back to Gump to get started on the tile processing. The rest of the day was pretty much processing of the tiles and a bit of cage construction. After work was done, I came into the dorm kitchen to find that the house cat had somehow taken the chicken that I had placed in a bowl of water on the counter to defrost, onto the floor without spilling the water from the bowl. I saw it licking the water that had spilled onto the floor and for the most part was nothing but impressed by how the cat could possibly do that. I proceeded to make a homemade teriyaki sauce, since I thought we didn't have any, and cook the chicken in it with vegetables on the side. I think it turned out good despite the fact that I didn't have ginger or cornstarch. After dinner, I had a great conversation with the Florida people about graduate school and the NSF fellowship which I found very helpful. Erica and I planned another significant portion of our trip tonight which I am very happy about, but I am tired and I have to wake up early to go to the store tomorrow. I think now I will go to bed. Until later.
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