Yesterday the Ecology Club and I went somewhere to remove the crayfish from the river. Like I said in my other one, they are a non-native species to AZ and are killing off some of the native wildlife, so we were trying to remove them and then we would later boil them to feed to the alligators at the Herpetological Center. Well, we wouldn't feed them personally, but they would go there to feed them. Uh, so the bus ride was uneventful, I sat next to this one girl that I see in the mornings, but to be honest I really do not like her much. She's pretty... annoying to say the least. Blah. OH. She's the same girl that I wrote about in my SeaWorld entry titled "my wild and crazy spring break~!" which was not wild nor crazy at all. Ugh... Thinking back, I suppose she just wanted to make friendly conversation at 6:00 in the morning with me, but personally I wouldn't have minded a quiet trip there. It probably wasn't what she was saying that bothered me, but how she said it. She speaks in such a gosh darn loud manner, I can't stand it, plus she'll talk over me if I try to say something. I have to shush her a lot and tell her to lower her voice. We weren't the only two on the bus and I'm sure others were trying to sleep.
So, I'm not in the best mood when we stop at the place where we'd fish out the crayfish. It happened to be different than last years', this time being a stream rather than a lake. It was pretty, although I enjoyed the lake more because it was in a beautiful picturesque clearing in the woods, but the rocky cliff and the stream here was nice as well. You could actually see through the water unlike at the lake, where you sort of just wooshed your net and hoped you caught one. Strangely, it was almost easier to get them at the lake than here. Crayfish swim backwards, so you had to get them from behind and hope they don't change directions. Sometimes they ran into you and it was scary. The whining, loud girl insisted on following me everywhere and was too afraid to catch a crayfish, which, might I add, was the whole point of the trip, so she went the whole day I believe, without catching one. I told her off for it because I got sick of her whining and complaining saying "Ooh! A crayfish attacked me from behind! It was scary!" over and over again so everyone could hear about it. The water was ice cold and took a while to get used to. Hmm... we had to go into the bus a few times because it rained and thundered, weather I wasn't equipped for in a mere t-shirt and capris. Later people measured the crayfish for data and my group started to name them. One was this little tiny one called Pegasus that a girl got attached to. She dropped him a few times (it was a male, we checked) and later he got put into the boiling pot like the rest of them. D: We bowed our heads in silence for a moment.
We saw a little frog in the grass no larger than a quarter. It was cute. All in all, we caught 934 crayfish, about half as many as we caught last year at the lake. Oh well. Gummy fruit snacks got me through the day and I was nicer to the annoying girl on the way home. We stopped at McDonalds to eat and I got a Mighty Kids Meal. The cashier lady asked me if I wanted the girl or the boy toy and I was happy because they never ask me. Of course I picked the boy toy which was a little race car but I threw it away when trash collection on the bus came. D':
I got to the school parking lot then went home.
THE END.
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I forgot my camera though, so I didn't get any pics....
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