So much happened today, I don’t even know where to begin! I guess we can go chronologically.
So I got up at the bright and cheerful time of 5:20 am, met Jessie (the other intern) at PRBO hq, we loaded up the van with 7 action packers (waterproof boxes), a water sample case, and our personal gear. 
My mom got a little tearful as I got ready to leave, and insisted on taking this picture of me and the van (I’m a little disgruntled here because we were running late but I’m glad the picture is here!)
Then, Jessie drove us to the Golden Gate Yacht Club where we met Jim (the skipper of the sailboat) and his friend Matt, who helped with the trip and was learning how to sail from Jim. Our trip went very smoothly! None of the swells were too big, we didn’t get wet from the splash at all (though we were prepared for a very wet ride with lots of raingear, thanks Jim and Matt!). We left around 8:30 am, so it was still REALLY foggy leaving San Francisco. We couldn’t even see the Golden Gate until we were almost upon it and even when we were passing underneath, we couldn’t see the bridge much past the highway part of it.
Then, we had a few hours of sailing with no land in sight. I got a little sunburnt (oops) so my face is a little roasty toasty, but I didn’t get seasick! (thanks, Bonine!)
Jessie took a picture of me, with Jim’s back and Matt’s profile, and I took a picture of Jessie! It was kind of chilly but around 10-11 it warmed up.
Then, out of the fog, the Farallons appeared! 
We arrived at about 1pm.
Getting things and people on and off the island is not a simple task. I don’t think you can see it in this picture, but there is a crane on the island that is the island’s means of transport of items/people.
The sailboat tied up to a buoy nearby the crane, then Russ (one of the biologists on the island) came out on a transport boat to get some of the stuff and me. Then, the transport boat goes back to the island where the crane lifted the entire transport boat with people and contents out of the water and onto a landing platform on the island. Pretty neat, huh?
It took two trips to get all the supplies/trash on/off. Then Jim and Matt took a tour and then went back to SF with interns Alex, Katrina, and Michelle. Katrina and Michelle are taking a 2 week break and then coming back. Right now, Jessie, Russ, Pete, Annie, and I are the human residents of the island. Jessie and I will spend the next two weeks getting all trained up.
This picture is of Russ, Jim, Matt, Katrina, Michelle, and Alex getting lowered onto the water.
We spent the afternoon putting away the groceries, getting settled in, getting a tour of the house, then doing rhinocerous auklet and cassin’s auklet nest checks. I’ll describe these later because it’s superdy duperty cool and deserves its own post. Then, we ate a delicious dinner cooked by Annie and got a semi-detailed run-down of what the details of our jobs might look like.
All in all, a VERY exciting and eventful day, despite being kind of groggy and grumpy since I didn’t get my big cup morning coffee 🙁 (caffeine tends to exacerbate seasickness)
Later tonight we might help/watch Russ, Pete, and Annie with mist-netting the ashy storm-petrels (which will happen if the weather permits, and if it does, will be around 10:30 – 1:30).
Fantastic day!