Quick Update: Boat crash!

Week three we made it to Wabasha which is right after Lake Pepin. In Wabasha, we were met with so many Eagles, which turned out to also be where the National Eagle Museum is. We saw a few eagles close up that were tied down, most of them were brought to the eagle museum because of an irreparable injury and will have to stay at the National Eagle Museum. Bald Eagles migrate to Wabasha in the winter to take advantage of open waters and incredibly abundant resources. - Chippewa River comes in causes a natural dam due to its high content of sediment. Warmer, denser water hits dam caused by Chippewa, which is an upwelling of warming water that hits natural dam which causes an open water area that does not freeze over. During the struggle with DDT, the only place in the United States where one could reliably view a Bald Eagle was in Wabasha, MN.
    In Wabasha, we got to see how much the Eagles presence influence the community because most of the city of Wabasha was cover in eagles, from the post office to murals on the street. There was a plentiful of eagles even now before the winter season has even started. Even when the water was a bit high with all the water that may have made it harder to fish they still were in the area.
    From Wabasha, we headed to an Island and were trying to make it to Winona. On our way to Winona, we hit a bump in the road, literally. To no one person's fault but...they got a hole in one of the boats from a rock that no one could see. We were 5 miles from getting to our campsite in Winona. It was a very eventful time on the island though, people walked in on me going to the bathroom, Peter (ecology prof.) helped with dinner that became a disaster and other random fun times.