2013 Marine Bio II

This is fire coral. You may not believe it, but there's something amazing about fire coral. The BVI is fraught with it, and its difficult to find a location that doesn't have it in abundance. Named for the fiery stinging feeling experienced when the stinging bristles come into contact with skin, fire coral is the bane of poorly buoyant divers...

1) I signed up for marine biology II because I really enjoyed the class and the trip last year and I wanted to get more advanced and in depth with material, the credit was just the cherry on top. I'm looking forward to the night dive on the trip because night dives are the scariest and al...

Yesterday started of with me waking up and taking a shower after Clayton and Mat finished their shower. After we all finished with our shower, we walked down to the road, so Glenn could pick us up and take us to the BVI Office for breakfast. I had a donut and some cereal. Then we drove the boat to...

Yesterday was one of the heaviest days we've had this week (literally and metaphorically). We started the day with a light breakfast and a talk at the marina followed by the heavy lifting of cinder blocks, for our reefs, onto the boat. After loading the blocks we took off for the Jesuit reef at Long Bay. ...

Today, after Andrew and I struggled for ten minutes to get Killian up, we headed down to Guavaberry's commissary and ate a wonderful breakfast provided by Casey. As we ate this feast of yogurt and chocolate donuts, we watched Dr. Shannon Gore's presentation on the turtles of the BVI. In this presentation we discovered that there are four different...

Today started off with a chocolate donut at the Internet cafe at Guavaberry from Casey. The breakfast is always great and I enjoyed it very much. After breakfast we had another talk for Dr. Gore. The talk was concerning turtles because we were going turtle tagging later that day. The power point was very interesting and I liked everything...

Upon arriving to the BVIs, Killian, Andrew, and I were exhausted, and went to bed after devouring our Max n' Cheese dinner provided to us. However, after Andrew found two spiders climbing on him while he was in bed, we found an enormous Tailless Whip-Tale Scorpion hiding out in a corner of our room. After annihilating the arachnid with...

Yesterday was a late night so we were unable to blog, but here is a quick synopsis of what occurred yesterday. The morning was the same as usual, but then we sank our cinder blocks and helped the marine 1 guys plant coral to them. This was a fun yet challenging activity. We were forced to...

Today was another fascinating day. Today we woke up as usual and went to breakfast. We enjoyed a nice quick and light breakfast in preparation for our awesome day. We had a long day in front of us and needed a quick breakfast. Casey prepared the perfect platter of fruit and cereal. Following breakfast we...