Nightlighting
Last Thursday night, a bunch of us went down to the dock to nightlight, as it was our last night at the labs together. I am hopelessly impatient, and when I first put the light in the water, I was disappointed that schools of fish didn't immediately swarm the small beacon. I was also irritated with the frigid cold and the fact that the dock was icy as Neptune. They started coming slowly, but soon more and more had surrounded the light and were swimming about in circles and investigating the cord that ran vertically into the abyss of our world. Soon hundreds and hundreds of fish were milling about, enticed by the light and all its mysteries. The fish that came were some kind of anchovy, as we could tell when we caught one in our net and then Garrett went and bit its head off. It was silvery and long, with green on its back and two large eyes. Its scales readily shed and left slime and rainbow scales on our hands. We were really really hoping to see a sea lion harbor seal, or even a large fish that would have come to prey on the huge amount of smaller ones. We also saw a little Eumicrotremus orbis swim into their school as well as a few shrimp.The experience was incredible, and could only have happened at Friday Harbor with people who are interested in biology for Biology's sake, not to go into the medical profession.
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