To follow up on what we did yesterday, Andy and I headed out to the Rapid plots to zip tie the coral cages to the newly cemented eyebolts. We swam the entire Rapid site to do this and I saw a few cool things along the way. For one, I saw this pelagic reef fish that I have only seen a couple times before and managed to get a decent picture of it. It was cruising along the reef with a companion most likely looking for a small fish to eat for an easy meal. Although these guys can swim incredibly fast, they were just cruising along. After I saw these fish, I saw a giant grazing group of parrotfish that were scouring the reef for algae. It was incredible to see a swarm of a couple hundred parrotfish go from spot to spot on the reef in search of food. Seeing as these fish are relatively large compared to most reef fish, it was an impressive site to see. When we finished we headed back in and I took my time to myself after we got back to work on analyzing my pictures from my coral study on Gump Reef. After lunch I did some data entry and then got out to do another trips to Gump reef to take pictures of the corals. When we came out of the water, it was relatively windy and it certainly looked like a storm was coming. After picking up my gear, I headed off to a before dinner dive master class and then made peanut sauce pad thai for dinner. I had never made it before but it turned out pretty well. Right after dinner, I got to work on Fulbright and some more coral picture analysis. It seems like these last few weeks are going to be a bit of a squeeze for me. Plenty of work to worry about aside from my work during the day.
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