Day 5 shocking fishes/swimming

Day 5, today's project was to measure the depth of Wellpinit River. After measuring that, we headed to another place where we had to zap ⚡ some fish in the water. The reason for this was to help the red band fishes from being in danger by fishes who are not part of that river, those fishes being Brown trout. This part was fun, yes, I did struggle a bit to move the fishing net around when it was underwater, but it was all worth it at the end because we still caught many little Brown Trout Fish. Once the fish were collected, we got out of the river and watched Jordyn tag two red band fish. These red band fishes are native fishes that have been in danger for a while, but now they are much better than before📈. Something I have learned is that I want to be very much informed about ticks, but I was talking to Raquel and Corban about how ticks are dangerous and how they can affect people if they get stung by one. Learning about ticks and how they are not healthy scared me, and I was watching my steps every time, even when I was in the water. Now, remember how I said we got permission to swim? Well,l this was the day we went swimming and had so much fun. Soon we headed back home and showered, hung out with the rest of the people of the big river, and waited for dinner time. When dinner time arrived, we all started talking about home. We wanted to watch a movie to hang out before the next day, since this would be a busy day, but I left earlier since I was tired and I wanted to sleep. But once I got to that tent, I noticed Roman on the phone with his mom and joined them. The conversation we had with Roman's mom was funny, and it made me want to head back home and hang out with my family.

There are pictures of the fish we caught, there are 2 fish that were the red bands rainbow. And the rest are brown trout fish. 



This was the view where we took more water samples than in the previous rivers we had gone to, but this was also the place where we were able to swim in 

Meeting Jordyn and Josh was very nice since we did learn a lot of things with them, even things I did not expect to learn about. This was a nice day. I hope my classmates enjoyed this as well.

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