Well I learned that working from 7am-3pm means a very very long 5.5 hour morning! I now know to buy 4 things for working in the fish house- very thick socks, very strong lotion, a snack and a water bottle. When we arrive @ 7am we take about 100 pounds of fish and thaw them in cold water, put on gloves and then sort through every fish and check that they are good enough for the animals and then put them in buckets according to size. This is quite a challenge when you are barely conscious.
Needless to say, all three interns were a bit slow at fish sorting this morning-I dropped about half of the fish I sorter on the floor because they are so slippery. After this we assemble food buckets for each marine mammal in the aquarium for the entire day. Then we clean. a lot.
This is why I need lotion, my hands are sooo dry from scrubbing everything that comes into the room and then the entire room itself (its stainless steel and concrete) twice a day. Doing all this (and other random things I've forgotten) takes about 5 hours, and you often forget to eat/drink because it's so busy and hectic in the kitchen- so I will have to buy a water bottle tonight so I don't pass out tomorrow. We also have some pretty intense combination combat/rubber boots that definitely need to be matched with thick socks, but on the plus side you can literally kick a brick wall and not feel a thing!
Hmmm, one last thing I can remember- we did sea otter enrichment, which was really fun. We dropped frozen toys into their enclosures and watched the otters try to get food out etc. The otters are adorable and surprisingly strong. They're about the size of Zoey and they look like giant teddy bears, it's really hard not to pet them!
All and all, a great second day!
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