I've made it! I arrived in Anchorage yesterday without having checked my email in a few days so honestly I had no idea what was going on with the people at the Sealife center, the plan was to take the bus to Seward stay in a hostel for one night until my internship started then show up today at the center and ask where to go. Well lucky thing I arrived when I did because there was another girl waiting for the same bus and I asked her why she was headed to Seward and as it turns out she is an intern as well, my housemate no less! She was canceling her bus reservation and hitching a ride with the big boss at the center who happened to be in anchorage that day, so I made a few calls and tagged along too. Sweet deal! So not only did I get a free ride to Seward, but I met my roommates and got to explore Anchorage for a few hours. We started the drive at 8pm which looked like noon and felt like 9pm. Yeah my body has no idea what time it is...The drive took us much longer than it should have due to all of the road construction, as we were chugging along I couldn't figure out why I was so tired, but then I realized that thats because it was night time - it only looked like 3 in the afternoon. This really shows you how much we take subliminal cues from the light. So sunset was at 11:30pm and even then it really only got dusky for a few hours and then started to get light again. The Seward highway is beautiful, its as if the mountains decided one day to go for a swim and got stuck once they were up to their knees.
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| Time Stamp: 10:00pm 6.18.2012 |
The big talk around here is the baby beluga. There was a stranding at the far end of the Aleutian chain and the center flew a guy out to go check it out, and he came back with a live baby beluga!! This is BIG news, belugas are rare in the wild and even more rare in captivity, and we have a cetaceans researcher who is trying to develop a better way to track belugas and find out more about them so if the center can step up to the challenge of keeping this poor stranded baby alive there is a lot that we can learn, and hopefully we can save this poor little dude. Hopefully I'll be able to see it since I'm more or less a behind the scenes worker.
Orientation starts tomorrow, and by then hopefully I'll know what I will really be doing, and I get to meet the people I'll be working with. Wish me luck this is going to be an exciting three months!
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| The mud flats can be dangerous, people get stuck and the tide comes in fast... Extra Goodie |
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