2012 Week 1

Another early morning awoken by Docs knocking and delightful and loud voice I shot out of bed and got ready to meet. We met at the entrance to the guava berry resort and got on the taxi driven by Glen our native friend and driver and headed to the marina for breakfast. For breakfast I had an omelette with...

Today in marine biology we had 4 separate article discussions. The first was on positive and negative impacts on ecotourism. We talked about how ecotourism is a positive because it brings awareness to marine conservation but how it was negative in its effects on the local regions of marine life. The second article we talked about was how bringing...

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...

When I woke up today I knew it was going to be a great day! I slept really well and was well rested for the day. We woke up at about 7:15 to get ready and were down at the street ready to get picked up by the taxi at about 8:00. We headed over to the olde yard...

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...

Today was the second to last day! I know I'm gonna miss this place. Anyway today we woke up around 7:15 and Casey brought breakfast to us at our cabins. Today was the first day we didn't dive, so we were getting ready for our service project. We painted a fence white. So after breakfast we walked over there...

Today Cedar cabin was able to wake up at a solid 7:40 and eat a breakfast provided by our dive instructor Casey right at the Guavaberry Resort where our marine bio group is stating. Our fresh and relaxing start however was short lived. We immediately left the resort as a group to our community service site about half a...

Group C's article was about ecotourism, a subject that I previously knew little about. But after their presentation, it is clear that ecotourism is helpful to native people that make a living off of it, but detrimental to the environment as some species may die off. Group D's article was about the implanting of species that are not naturally...

Today was the first day I slept in. Mr. Kirby woke my whole cabin up at 7:20 this morning. We headed down to the marina for breakfast by a taxi ride from our favorite Virgin Gorda taxi driver, Glenn. After breakfast, we set out on our boat the "Sea Monkey" towards Long Bay for coral transplanting. We snorkeled for...