They held a science day recently at my daughter's school and I volunteered to go in and talk to the kids. The teachers had gotten ahold of some animal parts and had a short outline for the volunteering parents to follow. They were excited to find that they had an actual marine biologist in their midst. I "borrowed" a couple of live animals from one of the classrooms and worked that in to my talk.

And as Matthew is so fond of recognizing, took advantage of the awesome network here in North Carolina. Matthew was kind enough to lend me some turtle parts, and seeing as he was still in Greece at the time, Wendy Cluse was even kinder and offered to collect the items and bring them to me halfway between Beaufort and Durham. All in all the day was a huge success, made all the better with a little help from my friends.

Note the fine Africa swag given to me by Angela Formia. This is the t-shirt that was designed for and sold at the recent African meeting at the start of the sea turtle symposium in Crete.

And of course I would not want to neglect the fine Oman swag that Manjula brought to the symposium for me.