Today was boat day. In theory, we were going to a smaller island to collect samples. So, in the morning, we headed down to the docks to meet up with Sandro's cousin who owns a boat big enough for all of us. It took about an hour to get to the island where we spent our day. We put the anchor down and headed into the forested island. To get an idea of the size of this island, there are seven permanent residents and we were able to walk across (the short way) the island in about 15 minutes. It was a really neat island. There were cacti, trees, wild arugula, wild asparagus (that was ready for another harvest), wild garlic, and a bunch of wild herbs and chard growing everywhere. There, also, were grapes and olives just like any good mediterranean farm. We dropped our stuff off at the restaurant (the only one on the island) and went off to take our samples (3 of them to be exact). We walked through the grape fields and found 2 different areas that were far apart and where the soil seemed to change. Magic of all magic,  the two soils were different one had more clay while the other had more sand. Our hike took us to a beach where we sampled the sand and dug through a bunch of Roman pottery shards along with some mosaic tiles. There were some really awesome things found including an old tile that a dog had stepped on before the clay was completely dry. That was by far the coolest thing we found. Then it was lunch time (very delicious) and then we were told that we had 2.5 hours to go swimming and snorkeling. We took full advantage of the opportunity. We saw three octopi, one starfish and an amazing number of sea cucumbers and sea urchins. I forgot how much I like snorkeling. It is awesome (being able to blow all of the water out of the tube after going under helps too). Many a shell were picked up. We headed off the island and traveled to an even smaller island with a fresh water pit which is weird because it was probably 20 m from the sea. We tried to collect some of the water but it was just not in the cards (tension knots are stupid when the thing that the knot is holding is  going to float...). At about 4:30 we headed home and an hour and 15 minutes later I was in the shower getting nice and clean. I think I should go to bed now since I have re-typed almost every word that I have written in the last five minutes.