On the second day, we went to visit the landowner to ask if he had any information about the depth below sea level of the sill at low tide at the isolation basin that we had sampled the day before. This is because if sea level exceeds this level, the basin will be inundated, as it is today, and if sea level is lower that the elevation of the sill, the basin will be isolated. However, the landowner informed us that the sill had been blasted around fifteen years ago to allow larger boats through. He offered to take us out on his boat in the afternoon to assess the situation, and said that the main objective of the blast was to widen the inlet, not to deepen it, so it may not have been too severely impacted. So after a walk, we returned to go out on the boat. As it was too early for low tide though, the water was too deep to reach the bottom.
Later, Jerry, Christine and I returned to the site selected the previous day to take a core, while Tasha and Rachel went out on the boat to attempt to measure the depth to the sill at low tide. Unfortunately, the russian corer was stuck in the soft sediment by the time they got back, and after a long time struggling to get it out, we had to leave it behind before the tide came in too far…
