The day began with a customary Gump dive to do damselfish surveys while Tom, Jessica, and Andy went to deploy more cages out on the Rapid plots outside Cook's Bay. They brought back the last set of cages to be taken apart and redeployed tomorrow and when they arrived we got right on working. The project took the rest of the day for the most part. There was a little time after where I was able to work on measuring corals for my own coral project. I have been given permission to conduct my own coral assay in order to determine which size of young coral doesn't get accidentally bitten by parrotfish. It should be a very interesting experiment if I have the time to completely finish it. Once the day was over I started working a bit on a job application and then got ready for Mosen's birthday party. Mosen is a French guy who did his PhD at CREOBE and now is working as a assistant to Hunter. Hunter is a researcher from the Bren School at UCSB who is working on early coral mortality. Mosen invited some of the people over from CREOBE and we all had dinner together. Tonight Stella put together an awesome taco salad with mango salsa and her signature Mexican beans. As always she is the master of Mexican food cooking and it tasted great. Unfortunately she wasn't feeling well right after she cooked so she really wasn't able to come out to eat and socialize with the rest of us which was a shame. After dinner we had ice cream cones and cake along with Mosen's punch that he made. I stayed up rather late but checked in earlier than some of the people here because I am feeling a bit tired. It was fun as always to be with company under the fare pote. I also managed to get some awesome night time photos. The moon was incredibly bright out so it was great to take pictures. Now I am going to sleep so that I can get up in the morning. Until later.
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