Today marks the 18th straight day of rainy yucky weather. However, to keep myself busy and distracted I have been spending my time diving and training the birds. I mean if 
its going to rain this much and I am going to get wet I might as well fully submerge myself. Today marked the completion of my Advanced Open Water Certification so I am pretty excited. Since arriving in Alaska I also completed my Dry Suit Specialty Cert. and got to dive in our Harbor Seal Habitat with three of the seals. A very very cool experience. On the training front I have been doing a lot of work with one of my little kids that hatched when I was an intern here. Nemo has had a bit of an attitude and is our little savage attack puffin at times. So my goal was to break him 
of his biting and try and make him a little friendlier so that we could use him for educational talks. Well so far Nemo and I have been quite a team. I have yet to lose a finger so that is always a positive however, it has only been a week and a half so things could turn south at any point. Yesterday I attempted to do some puffin painting with Nemo and 
as you can see from the picture he is a bit of a messy painter. We normally have the puffins walk through paint and then walk across some paper well Nemo was doing great until he slipped and face planted. It was pretty funny and he was a trooper and never once got nasty. Hopefully we will see a break in the weather soon although we are already starting to get termination dust on the mountain tops. I guess summer here is officially over even though it felt like it never really started.
