Benjie and I prepared breakfast this morning for our ravenous classmates. We unfolded a table and placed cereal, milk, juice, granola bars, and yogurt on it. The first island we visited was Kodak Queen, and we dove down to a shipwreck underneath. The boat had a giant metal kraken with eight gigantic tentacles grasping the hull. We swim around the boat about three times and saw schools of small fish darting to and fro. Towards the end of the dive, our entire class took a picture inside the kraken’s skull. After we surfaced and drove to Virgin Gorda, we dove down to clean coral trees that our school planted. I grabbed a brush with a scraper and scrubbed away a lot of the algae. My most favorite part was breaking away pieces of fire coral from the pipe no getting stung on my finger. I learned that fire coral won’t always sting you when you touch it, due to many mistakes, but when it does, it hurts a lot. The last activity of the day on the ocean, after an hour and a half of jumping off the boat and eating, was snorkeling over mangrove trees. I learned that the trees have root systems in the ocean, and one specific types possessed roots that poked up from the sand and had holes at the top. We saw many juvenile fish swimming between the roots and also a few sea cucumbers that were the size of my forearm. They were ginormous sea cucumbers. We returned to land where we got on a taxi back to the cabins. I took a long shower and enjoyed a dinner full of lasagna with garlic bread that night. Our project group finished the slides for our presentation. Tomorrow, I look forward to presenting the slides our group made and also what kind of service we will do. And on that bombshell…Good night.
