On a windy afternoon with some hail coming down , a huge boat set off to explore San Francisco Bay. Yes, I was on it.
We were off on our "Discovery Voyage", a field trip where we would all pile onto a boat, and explore the bay for four hours. Boy, was it fun!
We (my fifth-grade class) were exploring the bay with special scientists whose job it was to check on the creatures of the bay. It sounded boring to me, so I geared for 4 hours of trying not to be seasick. It wasn't that boring. I mean, sure, we started out with the usual safety talk. But after that, all fun. First, they had us divide into three groups, since they had three stations to explore. Launch First Mission. Begging first transmission:
First Station:
At the first station, we were studying mud and the creatures that live in it. We talked about different "Invaders", creatures that had come to the bay and began killing the creatures that lived there. Then, using the cranks and levers and rope, everything, to operate a claw to go to the bottom of the sea and snatch up some mud. After we had successfully done that, we each got our own batch of mud to use.
First, we just went through the mud with our fingers. Some of the girls refused to do it when they heard that there were worms in there. Next, we used spray guns, really good ones, to siphon away all the mud (some of the girls refused to do this too). Everyone thought they had caught a lot of worms, but the person leading us (a girl, though she was not afraid to get dirty) said that these were special tube worms. Most were just empty tubes, though we caught a few worms.
Last, we made the oath to "love the mud". We did this by spreading mud on our faces. We also a few Bay Shrimp and sea sponges. First Mission Accomplished. Ending first transmission.
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