2012 Week 2

Today we were officially introduced to the British Virgin Islands. We woke up at 8 in our cabins and got ready for the day. My roommates are Sean Lyden, Andrew Chittoor, Cesar Garcia, and Chris Lanyon. We then took a taxi to ate breakfast at Old Yard. After breakfast, the Dive BVI instructors, Casey, Jeff, Brian, and...

Great fifth day in the BVI. Woke up as usual at 7:45 and waited at the cattle guard at 8:15 for Glen to pick us up. At about 8:30 we arrived at the dock and set up our gear for diving. We had a small breakfast consisting of muffins and juice. We had a semi-long boat ride out to...

Today I was woken by 3 chickens, balking at me through the panels of my room at 6:45. After that we went down to the cattle guard (the section of ground cut away with bars on top so cattle can't walk on it) and waited for our taxi. We got to the Olde Yard, ate breakfast and did and...

Day 5 at the BVI What a great day it was today. Day 5 objective was to harvest and plant coral in areas where it was destroyed by weather conditions, affected by disease and where algae was growing on top of it. In the morning Glen came to pick us up and drive us the harbor...

This is my good friend Gavin Patterson. Today we learned about whaling. Whales killed by whaling are often used for science, then sold commercially.

Today we began the day knowing that it would be our final day of diving. So we tried to make it a good one. After a little shopping right after we woke up, we all hopped aboard our boats and set off for Long Bay. We snorkeled around a little to check out the place we would be transplanting...

Boxfishes, or smooth trunkfish have an angular body sheathed in plate-like scales. It has maximum length of 19 inches. It is also triangular in shape with polkadots on its body. Its fins are usually yellow. The smooth trunkfish usually keeps to itself but sometimes may be found in small groups. Additionally, it shoots water onto the sandy seabed to...

Today I woke up at around 7am to submit my blog post before breakfast. Instead of going to the usual place for breakfast, we went directly to the dock where the Dive BVI team had already set up a small breakfast consisting of banana bread, muffins, yogurt, and a few drinks. Even through it was it a lot of...

Day two here in paradise was another gorgeous one. Today was much different than the first. While the first day we all were overcome by the beauty of this foreign place, today we started to settle in and get comfortable with both each other and our surroundings. When we woke up we received another great breakfast that filled us...