POTBR Blog 5, Day 5

 Day 5 and it is Sunday, travel day is here, and we will be off to Kalispell Reservation in Usk, WA at 11am. I'd say it is about an hour northwest of Spokane. We are going to take the long way and head into Airway Heights to do laundry and then Walmart trip. Dehlia is the best, she got us a chicken teriyaki for lunch to split as we waited for the clothes to be finished. The Walmart trip was a heat trap as I stayed in the van with the lab incubator, and it was the middle of the day. We arrived at the Kalispell Indian Creek Community Forest around 3-5 and immediately began to set up camp and get ready for dinner. Dinner was so delicious; Monette is great chef she made hamburger burritos and I made two they were so good. The camp site is much more comfortable as it is on flat grass field and not the rugged forest. Downfall is that it is out in the open and the sun is right on us. 9 of us are sharing one shower for the next few days but it all seems to be fine so far. There is no movie tonight as we are having a full-on attack by the mosquitos. Feels like the bug repellent is just a condiment to them. Nothing will stop them, so we are all going into our own tents and crashing early. Before the night ended, we managed to do some of our microbiology lab where we went over the samples taking from Cottonwood Creek after 55 hours in the incubator. They stunk bad with those bacteria in it. I saw more bacteria colonies and discoloration going on, on both sides. Lastly, we had to guess what we thought the fungal and bacteria sides were. My guess was Bacillus Spp and I must have got it right, Corbin wrote good on my paper. 


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