That same gosh darn rooster woke me up at 6:00 again. This is like the 3rd or 4th day in a row. I don’t like chickens. They are all over the island. I see at least one every time I walk outside. Apparently they are considered an invasive species in the BVI. But enough about chickens.
Today was our last diving day. Actually, it was our last water day. We started off with a two tank dive. My first dive was interesting. We explored (part of) the inside of an World War 2 boat. It was one of the original five boats that survived the Pearl Harbor attack. And before you ask, no it was not sunk in combat. It was purchased and sunk with the intention of making it into a cool dive site. However before it was sunk, there were a few modifications made to it. The most prominent one being the kraken. I kid you not, the owner of the boat hired an artist to create a gigantic octopus and attach it to the top of the boat. It looked amazing. Although, the octopus was partially disintegrated. While we were diving, I saw small crabs and a huge school of really tiny fish. While we were taking pictures on the boat, I scraped my leg on the boat. Now that I think of it, I think I have hurt myself at least once every day. Back to the boat, the interior was kinda bland. There just wasn’t any coral or plant life inside of it. I had to end my dive early because I used too much air.
When I returned to the surface, I talked with Garrett until everyone else came back. After the first dive, we took a break from diving and jumped from the top floor of the boat. Some people did back flips. It was fun.
For our second dive, we went to the coral farms. Our job was to clean a coral “tree”. Me and Cole were assigned a tree and we cleaned it for almost an hour. The coral looked nice. Something kept stinging my hand while I was cleaning it. Not sure if it were the coral or something else. After we cleaned the coral, we had lunch. We ate sandwiches.
After lunch we went it the mangroves. It was a stretch of water in between two islands. One of the sides was filled with mangrove trees. The mangrove trees roots extended to the surface. We were able to snorkel near them and look at the fish that lived under them. While snorkeling, I saw a stingray and some upside down jellyfish. Sadly, a few guys got stung by the jellyfish and we had to end the snorkel early. We got back to our cabins around 4:30. After that we had dinner and worked on our projects. We didn’t do anything crazy after that.
