2017

Today we started off the day by breakfast at our cabin. I woke up early, so I spent an hour or two on the hammock relaxing. Breakfast was good, and we then packed up our gear and were ready for Glen at 8:15. After a 20 minute ride, we arrived at our first dive site located near Ginger's Backside....

After waking up to the sounds of roosters and eating a hardy breakfast, my friends and the crew of the Sea Dragon set out to our first dive site, George Dog Island. Our instructors began our trip with a quick warmup and introduction dive in order for all of us to become acquainted with our surroundings and gear. We...

Day 4 in the BVI and it was our time to make breakfast, which turned out great. After breakfast,  we went down to the docks and went on our first snorkel of the day at Mango Bay We went to a small beach on the island and looked for invertebrates in the shallow water. We found small sea pearls...

Taking a giant stride off the boat, I immediately regained the lost knowledge of scuba diving. Descending into the cooling water, we (Garrett, Johnathon, Cole, and I) looked around at the coral and fish. After a bit of swimming we found a sandy area to kneel down and practice some essential scuba skills. After we finished...

Today I woke up and went to the Lime cabin to have breakfest which was the same meal as every other day.  Then we went to a beach with the Sea Dragon boat people to find invertebrates,  Dawson found a conk shell with an octopus inside of it and everyone else found a ton of other things like a...

Today was our third day of diving and our second and final day of project dives. Our goal for the day was to finish collecting data for our research project of measuring the filtering speed of barrel sponges. At our first dive site, George Dog Island, we found four barrel sponges and collected our data, which gave us enough...

Synopsis From waking up on a cabin without an air conditioning system to diving 30 feet underwater to explore new species of fish and coral, the first day in the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands has been a wholesome introduction to what I'm expecting from this trip. Compared to the beaches in Texas, the Gulf of...

Today was our fourth day here on Virgin Gorda. Our activities scheduled for the day included tagging sea turtles and observing marine invertebrates. After we ate breakfast, we headed down to the main room at which Dr. Gore, a scientist with the government, gave us a presentation on the history and classification of sea turtles in the BVI. She...

Even though this is blog 6 I am writing this on our travel back home. On our last full day the teachers held breakfast outside of their cabin. Instead of the routine of afterwards heading to the docks, we headed to the main school on the island. For our service project, we were tasked with remodeling part of the school...