Awaking to the screeching alarm, I took another cooling shower. After packing up my gear, we left for another delicious breakfast consisting of more Apple Jacks and cold garlic bread. We left for the marina and headed out to another dive site. This dive site was called Chimney because the rock face is called a chimney to rock climbers. Also, Jacques Cousteau discovered this site because it was off the coast of the island he was doing research on. The Chimney was basically a canyon with a bridge/overhang. We swam up the chimney, and there was a brutal current because the water was rushing down the slope. On this dive, we failed to find many sponges, except for one to test. After we came up, we were allowed to jump off the top of the boat again. The second dive site was called Bronco Billy. According to our captain the site’s neighboring island looks strangely close to a horse. On the second dive, we saw many sponges and were able to experiment on them. We also saw a spotted lobster and I immediately thought of steaming it and dipping it into some garlic butter. After the dives we left for lunch at the marina and were late again. Thanks to someone who forgot to put the dust cap on the regulator, the entire boat had to do push-ups. After lunch, we went to the wifi room to work on our research projects. After that, we went to the beach to play beach games. They were very fun especially sand pictionary, but the last event was the worst. It was a relay race, where we had to spin three times, swing a weigh belt to knock down a PVC pipe. Next you would run up the sand hill and roll down. After you look like a sugar cookie, you run into the ocean and swim to a buoy and swim back to shore. After reaching shore you would have to limbo under a pipe and run up another sand hill back to the start. Because some groups had five people, I had to go twice because we have four in our group. We got destroyed, losing by at least thirty seconds. After the race, we had a marvelous dinner of burgers, chips, salsa, queso, and spinach dip. Then after it became dark, we prepared for our night snorkel. Throughout the snorkel, a giant tarpon was following us. Also, we saw two different octopi one adult, and one young by some fire coral. At the end, when it started raining and was very cold, there was a flounder buried in the sand.
-Jack Bausbacher
