Day One in Virgin Gorda
It is a good feeling to wake up in the BVI. After only 5 hours of sleep, I was woken up by the harmonious songs of roosters. Although exhausted, I eagerly got out of bed to see the island in the daylight, and to face the challenges of the day. Everywhere you look you are surrounded by beauty. Our...
First dive!
The first ocean dive of the trip was a 45 minute long, 58 foot deep dive around reefs and shelves. Entering the water, we were initially at about 20 feet, and at that depth there were a few small fish. The deeper we descended, the larger and more diverse the organisms became. We saw three lobsters, some arrow crabs,...
Day 1 Underwater Exploration with Tanner
After about 4 solid hours of sleep, me, Richard, and Drew woke to an annoying alarm clock blaring in our ears. No, these weren't just any alarm clocks, these were roosters, cock-a-doodle-doing louder than any alarm I've heard in a while. Regardless of the wake-up call at 6:40, we were still excited to see a "sunnier" side of the...
BVI – day one
Today my adventure began at five in the morning, unfortunately, thanks to the local roosters. My roommates Jimmy Bucklar and Clayton Caldwell soon grudgingly arose from their sleep too. By seven o' clock we had deserted our resort to eat breakfast and receive a briefing over our schedule for the day at a different hotel. There we met the...
Day 1 at BVI
Today I woke up at 6:30 because the roosters were crowing. Then I got dressed and took the taxi to breakfast in the hotel conference room. Then after breakfast we met everyone from dive BVI and then we learned some stuff about the program. Then we learned about coral planting and ate lunch by the pool at the...
Dive1
During dive one I got to see a basic marine habitat up close. I saw many different fish one In particular in my picture is the silver fish with a bright yellow stripe, this is a yellow tail snapper, it is a carnivorous fish and travel in schools. I also saw the different relationships between...
Virgin Gorda: Day 1
Waking up to a beautiful horizon, myself along with Joe Payne and Julian Michiels walked outside to hear what on earth was making this annoying noise (figure 1 below). A multitude of chickens to our surprise acted as our second alarm to get us up and running for the first day of an exciting trip. Throwing on our swim...
First day of BVI blog
After the long flight last night, I woke up tired at 6:30 this morning to the awesome view you see above. I quickly got ready and went down to the street to go to breakfast. There, we met our guides. They introduced us to life on the island. We then went through a fairly routine lecture about coral transplanting,...
BVI – Day One
Today started out with an early wake up call from the chickens just down the way. It was just before six o'clock and both of my roommates were just waking up as well. We all sat out on our deck, that is much cooler than our rooms inside by the way, and just relaxed until we had to go...