39 Days!!!

Well, time here is almost done. I don't know whether I should be excited or petrified that I don't have enough time to finish my Master's. Right now I think I'm both and I am not sure how I am going to manage this final month because I am falling apart and going crazy! Everyone has been really busy with their projects around here, and there has been far less time for play and pool parties are nonexsistant.  However, we did get a treat when one of the last volunteers played "Pokerface" on the violin to wake up Jacob Hill one morning (pic above). That gave us a nice 5 min break of entertainment.

I am also finding less opportunities to bring my camera out because I am spending so much time in the lab,  with the volunteers, entering data, or any of my other endless tasks. I've been trying to get a good shot of the sun comming through the trees at sunset.  This one I actually really like, but it is not as cool as a small image.

My hard work, however, is finally paying off. I have found no species of bacteria in the cloacal fluid, but there have been many species of fungus. Unfortunately, I have only identified the one above to the genus level.  I, however, did apply for Spring graduation though I am pretty possitive things won't be finished until more like the beginning of June.

Other than that, not much has happened around the station. The iguanas are also starting to use the beach for nesting, so that is kind of cool. I keep hoping to run into a nesting iguana, but the only biologist that has is Avalon. Matt found one in a collapsed nest and was able to put a transmitter on her. She still looked pretty full of eggs, so I don't think she nested yet, but maybe. Below are some pics from that.

LOOK AT HER EYE!

Kimmy helping tie on the transmitter.

Other than that, I am just ordering what I hope will be the last of my supplies and trying to wrap this project up! Got to get it done. We also have another group of Earthwatch volunteers and I am pretty excited about the bunch. I pulled 10 hatchlings out of a nest for them this afternoon during an excavation. In all honesty, it is hard to work with the volunteers now because it takes so much time from my project, and it is sad because I would love to be relaxed and enjoy everything with them, but at this point I am never relaxed. I'm ready to go home now.