"We have money for oil drilling exploration a mile off the coast, but we don’t have the funds to improve our wastewater treatment facilities and address the sewage being dumped a mile off the coast. We have money for developing every inch of coastline into extravagant resorts but we lack the funding to put recycling bins on every mile or so of ( Read more... )

I like sea lions a lot. Here is a video from yesterdays snorkeling trip:

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(I'm working on the underwater photo/film skills... sorry about the shakiness.)

We might have gotten a little too close to their territory. They were curious and friendly at first, but towards the end they kept charging at us and blowing bubbles in our faces - sea lion talk ( Read more... )

 As of today, I officially only have 3 more weeks in Kino. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself and enjoy the rest of my time here, but I am really looking forward to getting back to Prescott and seeing Dillon and Pablo. I miss my boys.

Really though, don't get me wrong, I love Kino. I'm learning alot and having a great time here. Plus, check out ( Read more... )

Has is really only been a week since I last updated? It's felt like a while. Let's get up to speed.

After we got back to the field station from Estero Santa Rosa, we were banned from the outdoors and summoned into small cave-like cubicles only to stare at computer screens, stress out over crab identification, and write our research papers. Amanda ( Read more... )

Since the last entry, I got back from CT, met Dillon, drove to AZ with a lot of amazing stops, took a 4 week Search and Rescue course, climbed 4 multi-pitch routes (including my 1st one ever), climbed Granite Mountain in Prescott, had a month long ethical freak out about castration of animals, spent a week climbing in Nevada, went to Las Vegas for ( Read more... )