The bulk of the morning was spent sitting around the dining room table at the green house - first for breakfast, then for group introductions, and finally for Chris to gave a presentation on what is involved in monitoring mammals and the techniques we would be employing during the project.
It was around 12:30 pm when we piled into the van and headed out to Broad Cove for a 3 to 4 mile walk along the coast. Even though it was well past noon, most of the walk was enveloped in a shroud of fog, which lent a somewhat other worldly effect to the hike. This was our first official trek where we were suppose to be scanning the ground for any signs of scat or animal tracks, but the only one who seemed to have any luck locating anything was Lycos.
The last mile or so, I was walking ahead of the main group with Chris, Lycos and Jessica when we spotted a muskrat swimming in one of the small ponds that dotted the shoreline. By the time I had my camera out to take a picture it had spotted us and ducked under the leaves of the lilly pads. The group that was with Christina found some deer droppings, but that was pretty much the extent of our findings for the day.
At the end of the walk, we were rewarded with ice cream cones, milk shakes and cold cans of coke at MacLeod’s Canteen, a small diner right on the beach near Green Bay Road.The rest of the day and into the evening was spent hanging out at the green house, eating a late dinner, and sitting around talking about prior Earthwatch trips.
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