Today in the Florida Keys, the students had a very lazy morning and got to sleep in. Since the day light saving happened today, it was the perfect day to sleep in and not be late for anything. In the afternoon, we drove to Long Key State Park for some tanning at the beach. This had to be the crappiest most run down beach that I have ever seen! (actually, because it was a State Park, it is at a very natural state...no beautifying and commercialism) To get to the water, you had to truck your feet through thick, thick mud. In the mud there were dead jellyfish who unfortunately missed the tide when it went out. Despite the mud, the students had fun by having a mud football game and doing a mud slip and slide. A few students took it upon themselves to do some garbage cleanup since it was low tide. They collected quite a pile that they brought out to the road so the rangers could haul it away. After the beach was over, we washed off all the mud and piled back into the vans back to the house. Around 8:30 , Dr Mark Butler and 6 of his grad students came and talked to the group about all the work they are doing with saving sea sponges. His talk was very informative and interesting, and let the group know of the threats to the sea sponges. Over all it was a great day and we are exited for the rest of the week.
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