2011

Today was by far my favorite day here in the BVI! We started out in the regular classroom period of the class in Ole Yard Village where we eat breakfast every morning. Our classroom period was significantly shorter than the previous days which put everyone in a great mood. Only after about an hour and a half of classroom...

Today started like all the others... Breakfast then class at the yellow hotel. Today class began with Casey. We watched a video on the reef check organization. This is an international volunteer organization that surveys the reefs. Because we will be performing a reef check on Friday, she described how to lay down transecting lines and even provided a...

Today began at 7:30, as Connor Beach and I were awoken by Will's Iphone alarm. We were the first group down to the main road, so we do not have to wake up the group tomorrow. We then took our usual taxi to the Ole' Yard Village for breakfast and a lesson on fish identification and transecting practice lead...

Day fourteen began as Kells and I woke up to the alarm clock And David knocking on ther door. This was at 8 am. We then scrambled to get up and ready while simultaneously trying to wake up Andrew who would always look at us and then go backto bed. At 8:30 we were down waiting for the taxi...

Today got an early start for me and my cabin, when Doc and Mr. Kirby got us up at seven, in order to wake everyone else up at eight. We kinda half slept until seven fourty five, then got dressed pretty quickly, and got everybody else up. We then took the bus to the hotel that we have our...

Today I saw that just snorkeling on the beach can be a lot of fun, and that just three things could really define my whole day. Those were: snorkeling at Savannah Bay, exploring the Baths, and chillin with the DJ after dinner. I woke up today knowing that we would not be diving,nand I was a little sad from...

Today we began our adventure with a class about reef check, a program that helps surveys reefs and shows other marine biologists and divers the current situation of the particular reef. We then followed that with a practice run of how a reef check would be conducted. One of the instructors laid out this tallied measuring tape. She then...

Today we woke up at 7:30 again. Then like usual we went to another hotel and had breakfast. We then learned more about IDing fish, laying transect lines, and surveying the reefs. We then had Speedy's taxi services pick us up and went Savannah beach were we snorkled for about 2 hours. The snorkling was really cool. I saw...

My entire blog deleted itself so this will probably be devoid of lots of humor and sarcasm. In short I was scared awake by a loud banging on the door. I rode the taxi to the hotel at which we had breakfast and Samantha explained that coral reefs provided indication of a healthy ocean, medicinal benefits, and protection from...