Last Day of Data Collecting!

What We Did Today:
1. Picked up all our traps at Cook Lake Research Site. Picked up the lunch tent.
Quiet day in Trapville. Based on our data, the vole and mice population is going down. This could very well be a result of a cooler and wet spring - a later winter.













2. Had afternoon to skype with kids back home and then explore the oceanside!

Millie and I walked down to the wharf to check out any lobster fishermen that may be there. (The green house in this picture is the house we're living in.)
We found one! So...... some lobstering facts for you:

Lobster fishing is the main occupation all along the Great Banks - which is the ocean edge that runs along the eastern coast of Canada and the very northern part of the US. According to the man we talked to, lobstering starts at the end of November and runs through April/May. He did say that often during February & March, bad weather hinders them from going out though. Traps are put down in November and will stay underwater until May. The traps get checked every day or as often as possible. Lobster Scott says he puts out ~250 traps that are marked with bright orange bouys. They range anywhere from near the coast to 15 miles off shore! He find them with GPS and markers, but he still says the best way - by far- is his brain. He relies on his brains first, and the technology last.

One trouble they've been having with the lobster netting is having seals eat all the bait, small lobster, and also nets and bait for net fishing. There is a quota of ~64,000 seals that can be killed this year by the lobster fishermen in order to help preserve their nets & lobster, but probably not enough to dent the population.


What We'll Do Tomorrow:
1. A trip to an adjunt (addition) part of Kedjimikujik National Park. We'll visit a small sector that's near the oceanside. We'll do some outdoor survival skills and also practice some of our mammal transect skills! I'm excited because this will be along the coast! Great place to be for our last day in Nova Scotia.


Wednesday's Picks:
OK: Not only are we in Nova Scotia, but our Scientists are from England & Germany.
Here's some Great British slang.
See if you can figure out what some of these things are:

1. Baggers & Mash: Sausages & Mash Potatoes
2. Bubbles & Squeak: The 2nd day of Mash Potatoes with onions added to it (it bubbles & squeaks as you cook it.)
3. A Cool Box: The Cooler
4. An Articulated Lory: A semi-trailer
5. A Recovery Lory: A Tow Truck
6. Loo: A Toilet
7. Queue: A line of people (used commonly in Canada as well)
8. Chips: French Fries
9. Shepard's Pie: Mashed Potatoes, Veggies, poured and cooked in a breadish pie shell.
10. Crisps: Potato Chips
11. Sticking Plaster: Band-aids (didn't guess that one I bet!)
12. Jumper: Sweater
13. Wellies: Rubber Boots
14. Rubbish: Garbage
15. Brill: Brilliant, Superb

**For short videos of several of us in the rain yesterday, copy and paste this link to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2N5T3W52hA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTUsWbjyPM

Can't believe I only have 1 full day left! This fabulous trip just FLEW by!
See you Monday!

KVWH