A night out
Wednesday night, our Ichthyology class bundled up and headed out at 10:30 pm to Deadman's Cove for a night tide-pooling excursion. We set quadrates made of pvc and turned over every rock within that area to ID and count all the fish we uncovered. The two most abundant fish we found were Xiphester atropurpureus and Xiphester mucosus. We also found a number of clingfish and in order to better understand these unique fish, we took the rock on which we found them back to the lab. We will be making a cast of the rock to see the curvature of the rocks to which these fish suction themselves. I also loved looking at all the little crabs we came across as now I'm able to make at least a general guess at the species. The night was so clear and nice even if it was freezing that it looks like we're headed back out sometime this week for another tide-pooling adventure.
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