P.O.T.B.R. 2025 Day 13

    Today we got to sleep in till 7 but I think I'm used to waking up at 6 now so I was awake at that time anyways. We got up and set out our breakfast to eat and pack lunch. I actually decided to eat breakfast today since we weren't going anywhere for a while and I'm glad I haven't been eating the cereal the other days because it definitely hurt my stomach. By 8 we had to have our lab coats on to finish our gram stains so that we could look at them with the microscopes back at the Nixyoawii Government Agency we visited yesterday.

    But first we had a tour to visit at the Walla Walla fish hatchery managed by Thomas Tallbull. Thomas has a history in studies in fish and wildlife studies. The fish hatchery is a relatively new hatchery and the release around 500 thousand Chinook smolts a year from April to the beginning of May. He showed us all around the hatchery like where they keep their bigger fish, their sick fish, and where they release them. That was outside the building but inside they held some Lamprey eels and a bunch of baby fish that they breed. The pools the kept them in were huge and held so many tiny fish. They just endlessly swim around in there, some were belly up but that's why they run tests to see what causes it. After we finished up there we headed to the Nixyoawii Agency to do some interviews with Melissa. While we waited for each other to do our interviews about our thoughts on the trip we finished writing down our information from our gram stains using the microscopes. When we got all our information we had to input it all into a document. It was a little confusing figuring out how to diagnose the bacteria, I was getting a little stressed out but I'm really happy with how I've actually figured out how to focus the microscopes now. After that we went to go shower and then we go eat dinner once I finish this final blog. Tomorrow we go home and I'll be able to upload pictures as well.