water water everywhere

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Today is Snapshot Day. We go out in little teams and sample the water in creeks and culverts and sloughs up and down the coast from Pacifica to Morro Bay -- three hundred miles of the Central Coast. My team went to Corralitos Creek and Harkins Slough. It was more fun than I can say. It's like hiking and chemistry sets and girl talk all at once -- except the girl talk is about water and cameras and the whole world. 

We saw a really strange rainbow slice in a cirrus? cloud on our way back to the checkin (which was at  the back entrance to Natural Bridges S.P.!  More loveliliciousness)

And this is what I look like when I have snagged the precious nutrient sample in the doughty whirlpack bag.

On another front, I had a dream about winged people this morning and it was all full of plotty goodness but I don't know if it is a story yet.  I wrote it all down on the back of the sudoku puzzles I keep in the bedstead.