Our first gloomy day here on San Salvador. We woke up to damp sheets and the sound of rain. We intended to go snorkeling at Lindsey’s Reef this morning, however Mother Nature had other plans. Instead we began our beach profile project under cloudy skies and a steady drizzle.
First, we surveyed Rocky Point Beach - a beautiful site approximately four miles west of Gerace Research Centre. Then, soggy and lifeless Dr. Cross and Dr. Erdman decided we should “knock out the second site” too. So we doubled back in the opposite direction to East Beach, waving to our warm dry beds as we drove by the GRC. Now more experienced (and soaking wet) we hurried to complete this transect a little more quickly than the first. While we huddled behind the minute shelter of the truck’s cab on the way home, we attempted [unsuccessfully] to dodge the pelting rain. Meanwhile, the professors decided (while warm and dry in the cab) that we would not return to field work today. Instead we attempted to make sense of our soggy data, and graph each of the beach profile transects in the 
warm dry shelter of the lab.
The rain continues to fall on Gerace Research Centre, keeping us indoors and from our original plans.
So instead of braving the San Sal shores tonight for night snorkeling, we will do more lab work and then enjoy the dry sanctuary of the conference room as we watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Mandy and Kelly
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