Marine organisms Collected in Sandy Hook Bay
by Brookdale Students

 

 Besides wading and beach combing, there are several ways to collect marine life. Properly dragging the seine net is the most effective group activity. It also requires teamwork cleaning and rolling it at the end of the visit.

The Hawaiian cast net is used in the fall for fast moving fishes like mullet.

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Don't forget to make copies of the Field Trip Checklist for students, teachers and parents before your trip. And have your students take the Virtual Field Trip to Sandy Hook..

 

 
"Shooting" the sun with the sextant.

 Determining our Latitude.
This is the view of the sun and the horizon through a sextant.
Mirrors on the sextant bring the sun's image to the horizon and the angle (Height of the sun above the horizon) is measured from that.

 

 We pass a boat whose captain forgot that the bridge is a tighter squeeze when the tide is high.

(Like riding in the back of a pick-up truck...there's no way to hit a bridge and look cool...)

 
A flounder and a fluke.

 
Trying to figure out why the underside of the fluke is white?

 
Time to fish...

...or cut bait.

 

 
A day above the bay with common terns following us home and finishing off the bait..

The day ends with collecting at the bay. 

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