2012 Week 2

Today, day 5, was coral replanting day. We started off by eating another quick breakfast at the harbor, right before boarding our boats. We traveled to the tip of Virgin Gorda to our harvesting/planting site. We began with a snorkel at the site to spot possible harvesting points, i.e. medium sized elkhorn or staghorn coral. ...

Today started out the same as yesterday; I woke up at 7:45, got in a taxi, and headed to the marina where we ate a light breakfast of banana bread, muffins, and Capri sun. I bought a hat for myself as well as a shirt at the gift store while we were waiting to get on the boat....

Today was the day everyone was excited about from t he beginning. We go and dive the Rhoane shipwreck. I awoke on my own to find our safe to be broken. There were 3 passports, a laptop, 3 iPads, 2 iPhones, and 2 wallets locked inside. Not good. I could not submit the previous days blog or my blog...

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 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...

Today was by far the most tired I have been on this trip. I had to pry myself away from my pillow as I prepared for a very important day. After another light but filling breakfast on the dock, we headed to Long Bay that had been destroyed by runoff from the adjacent island during construction. Easily passing Sea...

Today was a day to give back to the environment. We started off the day the same as yesterday, eating breakfast at the marina and then heading off to Long Bay. There we started the first stage of our coral replant project. First we grabbed our snorkel gear and jumped into the salt water, to find us some elk...

Day 5: Day five started off normal with another early morning. We took our taxi to the docks where we met up with Jeff, Laura, Casey, and Brian. They had a little breakfast prepared for us, before we went out on the boats. When we were done eating we loaded up the boats, prepared our gear, and headed out to...

Today was a great day because we just dove all day. We had an quick breakfast up at the marina again. After the breakfast we went straight to this bay we we immediately snorkeled. We snorkeled here to get an idea of the place that we were going to replant coral at. This place was very interesting because we...