Fishing in Alaska

Was lucky enough to be sent to Alaska to do some fish collecting and to make crosses between interesting fish.

This is Mud Lake. Beautiful scencery, but i di manage to fall and get stuck in the mud a couple of times. The mud there was about thigh deep.

Ashley and i after we had both manged to fall in the swamp.

Me looking for a good place to put some traps to get some sticklebacks.

Moose!!!

A car full of supplies. Traps, coolers, waders etc.... Peter "spiderman" Park and i pulling in and setting out traps in Mud Lake.

Sorting out our catch of Sticklebacks.

Backseat lab. This was our little set up to make crosses in the field.

Peter and i glued to our microscopes. We spent hours infront of the microscope checking eggs, making crosses and disecting fish.

Feel the serenity....

I am in the middle of nowheresville alaska, and what do i find? A Sydney Uni veterniary Hospital Sticker. It is a small world!

Ashley and Brian found a new friend in downtown Anchorage.

Roller Derby

Dane and I recently attended a roller derby match in Salt Lake City. The Leave it the cleavers vs the Death Dealers. The game was really cool, we sat in the front row and almost got squashed by a few players :)

A fast paced game. The aim of the game is to get your "jammer" past as many of the oppositions players. So that means the is a lot of pushing and shoving to get your team in the best position. There even was a fight in the game.

Stickleback Collecting in Ohio

My boss Mike and I headed to Ohio to find some cool Stickleback. We found some cool fish in this little ditch on the side of the road.

Here is Mike pulling in some traps.

Here is our hotel room lab.

This is me in the exciting town of Bellefountain, Ohio. Home of the oldest concrete road in America. I am standing with George Bartholomew the maker of the road!