2012 Week 1

Today was the most exhausting but better yet exciting day of the trip so far. I woke up at 8am only to find myself throwing on my super exotic swimsuit. By 8:30am, our taxi driver Glen came by to take us to breakfast at the marina. For breakfast, I helped myself to some pineapple and then topped it off...

My first day down in the BVI started out with a nice surprise by waking up at 6 am to a bunch of roosters. Next we assembled all of our gear and then headed down to the front entrance of the resort where we were meet by our taxi. We then took this down to a hotel/resort area were...

Caleb Kilpatrick July 5th 2012 Day 2 bvi The day began nicely, up without the alarm i got dressed with some of the clothes I had left out to dry the night before. It would have gone better had it not rained the night before, these rain storms seem to very frequent.... I wonder if its because of the humidity or if...

This morning I woke up early and went for a run. It was good, and I almost got attacked by an angry momma chicken. Then everyone else woke up and we left for the marina at about 8:15. At the marina, we had breakfast and I ate some delicious banana bread. From there, we went straight to the wreck...

This is Will Farrell. He is not the actor. Today I told the class about whaling. This kid Bennett decide to join into the conversation. I learned that global warming is bad. It hurts a lot of fish and coral.

Today we woke up and had a class session with lunch and breakfast at an air conditioned portion of a nearby hotel, the room was set up for their prom tonight so although it had a capacity of about 30 people max, it was pretty fancy. After lunch we went to Valley Trunk and did our first dive. We...

Today we heard from four different articles concerning a wide variety of topics. First was my groups topic of ecotourism, a flourishing industry that brings people into natural places untouched by humans, the industry has alot of issues with regulation and conservation. Ecotourism by definition hopes to in case conservation and cultural awareness but has been corrupted by business...

I started Monday in the bvi a bit confused and not quite sure where I was. The morning was a little rough, in an attempt to not be last cabin down everybody forgot their dive certification and dive kits, resulting in multiple trips up and down the hill.everybody made it down in time though. After a while the taxi...

We had our first dive today in the BVI. Our group saw life immediately after decent.two lobsters were spotted by our instructors Jeff and Laura to me and my partner Matt Mills. After about five or six minutes we sphere already spotting groupers which are endangered in these areas. Jeff speared two lionfish during our dive with his speargun....