and we're taking these broken wings and learning how to fly!
We're all settling into our projects, working so hard, and having the time of our lives! I was trying to blog last night but had the wrong browser up so I'm trying to make up for the pass two days that I haven't been able to blog. It was kind of late at that time - late here in Costa Rica is around 8-9 pm because we have to get up so early and even then the sunsets right around close to 6 pm already - but back to what I was trying to say... even pass our bedtimes, the groups here were still hard at work preparing for their soil samples and the other groups still entering data and sketching after long day.
I wasn't so sure how things would fall together in the beginning for the invertebrate group but everything came together quite nicely! John and I have been taking point counts both early midday and afternoon. Sebastian is also setting his ant traps close by collecting different ant species. We are all hoping the contrast between the two times shows in our data when we calculate the diversity index and the same when we compare different habitats from one another. We also have other data that we want to take into account such as the coverage at each point and making note of other competitive pollinators.
Aside from field work, I woke up early to help out at the barn and was able to help feed the horses and got to brush them. The task made me quite attached to the horses, especially this one beautiful dancing horse named Mr.Big! We were given the opportunity to ride them and I wasn't sure if I could but John was kind enough to do point counts right away and agree to set up the transects for our noon point counts.
After I collected data I headed to the stable and I thought I arrived too late to join the horseback riding group because the horses weren't at their stables anymore. So I started to head back to the cabins in tears only to hear Elise calling for me!!! Apparently they were meeting at another stable further down the path. All I can say is thank goodness!
We were able to pick a horse to ride and of course I picked Mr. Big and it was ridiculous how fast he could gallop. I seriously thought I was at the edge of falling off at times during the ride but Oscar taught us well! Really well!
Enrique was our guide for our horseback ride to the waterfall and I hope to have him as a guide again! He was so rich in information about the forest that I think that this whole Costa Rican trip up to this point is making me take serious consideration of what I'm going to do with my Biology degree at the end of my undergraduate career.
Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself with this. Who knows? But to continue my Beatles reference... all my life, maybe (just maybe) this is the moment I've been waiting to arise!
We're all settling into our projects, working so hard, and having the time of our lives! I was trying to blog last night but had the wrong browser up so I'm trying to make up for the pass two days that I haven't been able to blog. It was kind of late at that time - late here in Costa Rica is around 8-9 pm because we have to get up so early and even then the sunsets right around close to 6 pm already - but back to what I was trying to say... even pass our bedtimes, the groups here were still hard at work preparing for their soil samples and the other groups still entering data and sketching after long day.
I wasn't so sure how things would fall together in the beginning for the invertebrate group but everything came together quite nicely! John and I have been taking point counts both early midday and afternoon. Sebastian is also setting his ant traps close by collecting different ant species. We are all hoping the contrast between the two times shows in our data when we calculate the diversity index and the same when we compare different habitats from one another. We also have other data that we want to take into account such as the coverage at each point and making note of other competitive pollinators.
Aside from field work, I woke up early to help out at the barn and was able to help feed the horses and got to brush them. The task made me quite attached to the horses, especially this one beautiful dancing horse named Mr.Big! We were given the opportunity to ride them and I wasn't sure if I could but John was kind enough to do point counts right away and agree to set up the transects for our noon point counts.
After I collected data I headed to the stable and I thought I arrived too late to join the horseback riding group because the horses weren't at their stables anymore. So I started to head back to the cabins in tears only to hear Elise calling for me!!! Apparently they were meeting at another stable further down the path. All I can say is thank goodness!
We were able to pick a horse to ride and of course I picked Mr. Big and it was ridiculous how fast he could gallop. I seriously thought I was at the edge of falling off at times during the ride but Oscar taught us well! Really well!
Enrique was our guide for our horseback ride to the waterfall and I hope to have him as a guide again! He was so rich in information about the forest that I think that this whole Costa Rican trip up to this point is making me take serious consideration of what I'm going to do with my Biology degree at the end of my undergraduate career.
Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself with this. Who knows? But to continue my Beatles reference... all my life, maybe (just maybe) this is the moment I've been waiting to arise!
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