A Day in the Life

Working with animals there is no such thing as a "typical day", but I will give a basic rundown of what I am doing every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

5:30 wake up

7:00 leave

7:30-9 soda ash, bicarb (if needed), foot baths, clean the weir, sweep the beach, western quat the beach, rinse the beach, get rid of puddles, get rid of pine cones, clean windows (if it has not been done already), help out in the kitchen (if needed)

9:15ish plan the board (go through each feeding session and decide who is going to work what whale and what they will do with them), put vitamins in fish, cut Kela's fish (if needed)

9:30 Feeding session #1, when it is over the buckets, lids, and toys get cleaned and the fish bin gets "flipped". The buckets for the next session are already set (the fish prep person has already done this) so the buckets for the following session need to be filled-the fish are already weighed out and in a bin ready to be put in the freshly cleaned buckets. Enrichment follows this, it has already been planned for the day.

10:15ish Break=Beanery!!!

10:45ish clean fish for the next session

11:15 Feeding session #2, repeat

12:15 Lunch

1:00 Observation period for my research project

1:30 Feeding session #3, repeat

2:30 clean fish

3:00 Feeding session #4, repeat-the AC side of the kitchen now gets cleaned from top to bottom

4:00ish Enter my data into the computer

4:30 clean fish

5:00 Feeding session #5, repeat-the PI side of the kitchen now gets cleaned from top to bottom, I also usually check that all pool gates are open if no one has already has

6:00ish leave:(