Clown Car

This afternoon, we added two new roles on the chum boat. Today, interns filled the roles of bait roper, data collector, photographer, chummer, DJ, and tourist. Two of these things are not like the other...  

The lookouts in their personally reassigned roles
as tourist and DJ.

Following chum, we pulled both Pixel and Lamnidae out of the water. Pixel is returning to storage and Lamnidae will be out of the water over the weekend for maintenance. The chumming and trapping crews then helped pull everything off the two boats and load them into the van for transportation back to campus. In the end, we had lots of rope, buckets, lifejackets, gas canisters, and 12 people inside the vehicle and Pixel on a trailer behind. The stares we got were probably justified. 

The portion of the vehicle in front of me...

The portion of the vehicle behind me...
(yes, those are my boots)

And towing Pixel behind!