Off to the bog!

After a filling breakfast, a quick classroom session on eco-systems and a thorough waterproofing we set off in the coach to the peat bog. We arrived and were briefed on the techniques required to survey the area then set off in our groups to commence work. After the distraction of finding small frogs in the sphagnum moss we collected data with numb fingers handily recording the data in Harriet's waterproof notebook to avoid getting soggy paper notes like those from yesterdays walk! Once we had identified all of the plants and the remaining data had been collected with our quadrats, thermometers, anemometers, clinometers and all of the other group equipment; we had a class water infiltration race. Our group won! How exciting, a whole 7.5 cm in 5 minutes, wow. We returned to the coach ready to fog up the windscreen on the way back to the centre, where I am writing this blog now and munching on a well deserved jam sandwich.  Plus I haven't used the 'R' word in this blog, lets hope there is no more of it tomorrow! Bye for now, Katherine, from team MI-grants the soggy survivors of the peat bog.