Hi guys, I’m Cecilia, from China! Just so you know, obviously I’m not a native speaker of English, please forgive me if you see any grammatical mistakes or spelling errors for the rest of blog, thanks! =D
/Briefing & Preparing for lunch/
Today is a nice cloudy day, moderate wind with bright sunshine. We had our briefing after breakfast and was noticed that we had to prepare some packaged lunch. (I was completely unprepared for this news at that time, so did everybody else.) Anyway, we walked to the canteen and found out we got some vegetables for sandwich today! Sweet~ Everyone was pretty excited about the long hiking (maybe...), and our journey soon started...
/Wetlands/
We only did 4 wetlands today, which are way less than the usual (most of time we do 6), probably those wetlands were far way and we spent too much time on driving... We caught some diving beetles, fishes, and larvae, saw some wood frogs as usual. But the interesting thing was, all the wetlands we investigated were pretty deep, Marianne’s and my pants (we were doing Dip netting) got wet completely, which is so sad.
By the way, after all these day’s investigating, I suddenly realize that the old saying in China, which is “If the water is too clean, then there’ll be no fish.” is so true! Almost all the wetlands which had clear water can hardly find any fish.
Leeann mentioned about how a open area among trees formed, and she dug through the soil so everyone had a chance to touch the cold water beneath the surface of the earth...(really cold!)
/Lunch/
We had lunch near a big “pond” (or lake?), the wind was strong (keep the bugs away but it was a little bit chilly) and the sandwich was great. The scene of pond and trees and clouds is awesome!
/All about berries/
There was a bunch of berries around our wetlands, and they were pretty tasty. We got crowberries, cloudberries, soapberries (not that good), strawberries and dewberries. Actually we picked up a lots of strawberries and planed to make some jam someday...which is really nice.
/Afterword/
Pretty much that’s it for today. Well, we’ve got only one and a half day left, although the tundra is really buggy and kind of irritating, but I love it, and I guess every does to. It’s just so nice to work here.
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