Last month, Robert and I took our second day trip over to the University of Georgia’s Marine Extension and Sea Grant on Skidaway Island.
“By advancing research, education and training, and outreach, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant promotes the economic, cultural and environmental health of Georgia’s coast and prepare citizens to become good stewards of coastal ecosystems and watershed resources.” — Marine Extension and Sea Grant website
A cloudy day, with rain threatening, we braved our away onto the Sea Dawg, UGA’s 43’ research vessel.
Here’s how UGA described our adventure …
Here’s Robert looking excited and normal (and a little bit like a dark Gilligan) …
And here’s me with a sort of seated and crazed I’m-not-so-sure-about-this-floating-Dawg-thing look …
We did two trawls, and although at first glance each catch looked like it held basically one type of little fish, upon closer inspection there were a couple of dozen different fish species, as well as sting ray, jellyfish, sponges, coral, etc.
Thankfully, these trawls on the salty Wilmington River brought up very little trash.
We can’t wait for the next adventure on the water. Thanks, UGA. Woof.
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I would love to join you when you go again. I can spend the night Mark to get the early start.
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Ellen! Yes, I’ll let you know as soon as I hear about the next one. Mark has also been with us on a day trip to Wassaw Island a while back.
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Cool to see the fish. How was the garbage catch? I saw a Mark Rober YouTube video about catching marine trash. You two might like to see it.
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Amazingly, there was almost no trash at all. Thanks for the video suggestion. We’ll look into it.
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Hurrah, glad to hear it!
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What a wonderful wet day. So many animals living in the river, more than i thought.
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Yes, it’s hard to believe that there is such diversity under the water’s surface.
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Looks like fun!
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Was a blast!
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