Busy Saturday

As with the last several Saturdays, today was spent working on my independent research project. I start around 10:00am working on my photo analysis. At the beginning of my data collection, I took photos of my study sites to take back to the lab to determine percent coral and algae cover. There are 48 photos I have to analyze and I am three-fourths of the way done. I am using a program that allows me to find the area of the multiple things to determine percentages. Besides analyzing photos, I began editing my project proposal for my introduction and methods section of my final paper. At 5:30pm, I began diving for the evening. I went on two dives to collect data for my research buddy's project and mine. Both dives went really well. However, at the end of my dive, I wasn't watching where I placed part of my hand on the sand flats and got stung by a fireworm one of my fingers. Nothing too serious, just a slight annoyance.