2011

Our first day in the BVI began with a wake up call at 7:30. We then got all the stuff we needed for the day and left our cabin. Next we walked to the front Guava Berry Resorts and got a taxi ride from Speedy's taxi service. The taxi tooks us to a hotel where we te breakfast. Next...

Today we woke up and went down to the guavaberry resort office were tina, the hotel owner, laid down the ground rules for the hotel. Afterwords we all got in the taxi company "Speedys" van. From there we traversed to old yard hotel( it was actually nicer then guavaberry) and had breakfast. We then started our orentation about the...

So we're finally in the BVI. Finally. We woke up and chilled out to start, got farther in my book, ust waiting until 8. Then we waited for the bus to go eat breakfast and get briefed. I was fairly tired but not from lack of sleep but more from general exhaustion. We then met with the instructors and...

Today started bright and early at 6:55 when our anoying alarm clock buzzed uncontrollably. When then went down to the main entrance to our condos and were lead by Sam and Andrew to the office lead by Tina. Next we went to breakfast and we got a briefing introduction from all of the instructors. Soonafter that, Casey went over...

Today was AMAZING. There really isn't another way to describe it. It was fantastic. We started off the day by waking up at 7:30 and immediately going to breakfast to get briefed on the week. After our briefing we discussed different impacts of humans on marine ecosystems and vice versa. We discussed the different negative implications that humans can...

Greetings from Virgin Gorda, BVI. Everyone was prompt in their arrival at DFW and we had no problems getting into the terminal for an early lunch. 12:45pm came and we finally boarded the plane...something we had waited months to do. After a minor delay due to a bathroom issue on the plane, we left Dallas and headed...

The moment is finally here! We will be spending most of today traveling from Dallas to Virgin Gorda. I think everyone has been waiting for this moment and is ready to swap out their khakis and dress shoes for a wet suit and fins. We are going to try and add videos to a YouTube Channel, so...

Today in class we started off by talking about what next week will hold. We had many questions and doc amd Mr. Kirby had all the answers. We then went on to the artivle project where we talked anpbout lionfish ecology and about the leaping blenny. The leaping blenny article came first. The article was about how the blenny...

Today is our last class day and we spent most of it discussing our two articles. The first of which we discussed the importance of the fish that can walk on land, specifically its importance in the evolutionary chain. Which we decided it was not relevant or important because it is similar to saying humans evolved from monkeys. It...