Sunny Sunday!

The day began dry with very few clouds! We headed to Bailey’s Key a bit later than last week. The water was a bit dark and silty. Before getting in to collect data, Manon set up the surface GoPro to film the rub-rope in section C3 near Platform 2. You can see several dolphins using the rub rope in the featured photo, as well as this photo.

Besides playing with seagrass, Kami tried to and succeeded in sabotaging the MVA video recording by somehow shifting it from record to standby at 2:24 min into the 30-minute session.

(She was a bit close … maybe she wanted to operate the cameras?!)

Luckily, both front facing and back facing GoPro’s continued to record. (It’s either Kami or the camera had a glitch, but we like the former explanation better!)

The rest of the day included a snorkel on the outside of the reef that was also very silty though we did see a giant pufferfish and lots of larvae. We pulled footage and transferred files in the late morning and then our afternoon included a return visit to Bailey’s Key to see the dolphins and trainers. It was a slower than normal day but an excellent way to spend a Sunday in the field.

Cheers

Kathleen & Manon