The Cleaning Never Stops!
Thursday was our second day at the Cape Wildlife Center. Much like with the NMLC it was nice to walk in and know people and have people know you. As soon as we walked in the front door we were whisked away to the basement to work on cleaning and organizing it for the staff and volunteers of the center.
Marissa and I started working on the basement on Monday afternoon and got pretty far into the work. Although, we knew we got a lot of the work done on Tuesday, walking down into the basement today was only slightly discouraging. We still had a lot of work to do before the day was over. Marissa and I started by clearing the second shelf off and painting it white. After we finished that we did a second coat on the shelf we painted on Tuesday, and after finishing the second coat on the first shelf we did a second coat on the second shelf. Originally, I thought the painting would take a lot longer, but, unfortunately, it only took about 30 minutes. While waiting for the paint to dry we went to the barn to get more pallets to put on the floor. The barn is as far away from the basement as you can get, so Marissa and I we semi-procrastinating making the trek. Eventually, we made it out to the barn and back. The third row of pallets were used for wooden cages/boxes for bird/small mammals. This job produced a handful of splinters, literally. After the paint on the second shelf dried we attempted to fit all of the plastic kennels on it. We mostly succeeded. the rest of the day was spent laying down another row of pallets and putting everything left on the floor onto the fourth row of pallets.
We finished with about an hour before we were off for the night, so we swept as much as we could before the dust became too much. While sweeping we realized that we would have zero interaction with any animals while at Cape Wildlife. Realizing this kinda stunk because this was supposed to be an educational internship, but we have not learned one thing about animals or even observed anything.
The next chapter talked about good salted cod and bad salted cod. Britain; although, it did have a large number of cod, did not have enough salt. They struggled with salt for centuries, and during the time of salted cod they boiled down salt water to get the salt needed to make this delicacy. The salt from the boiled down water is not as healthy, nor as tasty as normal salt. Britain for a short time became allies with Portugal for their salt holds. This alliance did not last long though. There was much controversy about which salt cod was the best and why.
