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Seasick Marine Biologist?

Yeah, I found out on Sunday that I apparently get seasick, which isn't a very pleasant feeling. I thought I could do the whole 'the mind can overcome the body' thing, but with 7ft seas that apparently wasn't the case. I was fine until we had to turn the boat around to head back into shore, so the rocking of the boat went from going front to back to side to side, and my stomach apparently decided that that was enough. Once I went to the bathroom though, I was completely fine, and an hour later when we had lunch on the boat, I was actually famished. We had some good eatin', too!:D

We caught tons of cool inverts and fish. We caught a pufferfish and a cowfish for our aquarium (along with some others) which are really cool, and the coolest invert I got to see was something called a fire worm, which is a polychaete worm that has a defense mechanism similar to porcupines, in that it has spines that if you touch them, will stick in your hands and feels like you have fiberglass in them. But it was really cool looking, especially under a dissecting microscope.