6-3s field trip to Grice Marine Lab

By Myla Roper

When we got off the bus the first thing we saw was the beach. The experience of going seining was fun. I got excited when we pulled the net back to shore and all the little organisms were caught up in the net. The highlight of seining was when we got to pick up the organisms off the net examining them and placing them into the bucket. When we were finished on the beach we headed back into the bus and proceeded to the Grice Marine Lab.

In the lab we were shown preserved dead animals in jars. The lab assistant then pulled a dead octopus out and started identifying the different parts of the octopus. We were then allowed to walk around the lab and investigate close up the dead preserved animals all by ourselves. The largest dead preserved animal I observed was a huge fat fish in a humongous jar. After that we were taken to the touch tank where the lab assistant explained the different parts of each animal in the tank. That was our day in a nut shell at the Grice Marine Lab on James Island.