On using a wetsuit for the first time

I tried it out in my apartment first:

1) Wow, this thing is tight. Too tight?

2) Hey, it kind of looks like a superhero suit! *makes poses*

3) I'm really sweating in here, this is probably not meant to be worn in room temperature.

And then when I get into the lake:

4) Eeek, the cold water slipping in!

5) Oh hey, it makes me float. Weird. And actually it makes it a bit hard to swim when my legs float up like that.

6) It's comfortable and warm, though! And not actually too tight, though it bunches up a bit at my knees in a slightly uncomfortable way when I bend my legs.

7) Oh, what a funny feeling when the water drains downwards and ends up pooling in my socks when I get up. And hey, the water is body-temperature, when I take the socks off.

I bought the wetsuit rather spontaneously, so that I could snorkel around in the sea with it and see new stuff for my See All the Wild Species Project. I will try that next week and report back! Also I would like to learn better swimming techniques so that I can actually swim well in it.

Current tally for the 2016 See All the Wild Species Project

Species seen in 2016 as of the last of September, with the tally from last month in parenthesis:

vascular plants: 878 (840)
insects: 320 (290)
mosses: 245 (205)
fungi: 189 (127)
lichens: 158 (140)
birds: 118 (106)
other invertebrates: 66 (62)
other vertebrates: 23 (23)
algae: 13 (12)

total: 2010 (1801)

Woohoo, I'm over 2000! \o/ Last month's numbers are down somewhat after weeding out stuff I'd accidentally noted down twice and subspecies that I thought were species.

The fungi season started out well, but then it got really dry. Still, fungi have now outstripped lichens in my list. I was at a moss inventory camp in southern Sweden, and saw a couple of mosses I'd never seen before. Also I got my dad to take me birdwatching - left to my own devices I will look down on the ground and not notice the birds.