Lab and Kapiolani

I woke up to another beautiful 80 degree day in Hawaii. I went into the lab this morning and continued my task of ball milling soil samples from the plots in order to run them in the diffuse reflectance spectroscope. I made it past the half way point of the batch assigned to me, which was exciting. I also finished mastering the ways of the gamecam. By the time I had gotten out of the lab it was already moving rapidly into the afternoon. I noticed a lot of official looking cars and people in front of a building right near my dorm. I later found out that Secretary Clinton had been there to give a speech on pacific-US relations. I wish I had known about this before it took place, it would have been a very enlightening event to witness. This afternoon I hopped on my bike and headed down to Kapiolani Park in order to take a swim and find some pick up soccer games. I successfully did both, but I forgot my mask, so I couldn’t see most of the cool things I was swimming over. I did manage to spot a small spotted moray eel cruising through the reef. Also, a snorkeler told me she saw a white tip reef shark, but I wasn’t able to find it without a mask. I then went over and played some soccer across the street and went back to the beach in time to get some pictures of the sunset. Unfortunately when I made it back to my room and was trying to download them onto my computer I accidentally deleted them from my camera before actually downloading them. Not good. So tomorrow hopefully I can go back and recreate the experience and see even more with my mask.