One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

We've been given our specialisms for the first ten weeks of the programme, where we'll be helping to survey the reef, and I've been allocated fish. My textbook has arrived from Amazon, I've got the list of fish from the field manual and I have 67 species to learn. And identify to a 95% accuracy. Hmmm.

Not sure how I'm going to manage this savant-like feat of total recall, but I'm fairly confident that the Dr Seuss school of surveying ain't gonna cut the mustard. For example, I have already deduced that there is definitely more than one type of blue fish. Not as dumb as I look, eh...?!

Ok, yes, I admit that it's time to knuckle down and learn me some fish.

Learning forecast:
Species to learn: 67

Species learnt: 0

Days to go: 42

Outlook: GRIM

Watch this space.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish