2012 Week 2

Unfortunately, these were our last full days in Virgin Gorda. I woke up at 7:45 to get ready for the day. After I showered, I walked over to the teacher's cabin for breakfast. Once there, we all ate breakfast and I had a blueberry muffin and banana bread. After breakfast, we all walked on the main road to paint...

Day 1 in the BVI. So far so great. After a long day of travel including a very interesting experience with customs, a day in the water was very needed. First we got a wake up call from Mr. Kirby and Doc at 8:00. My roommates, Alex Dieste and Caesar Garcia got up immediately while I...

Today we spent the majority of the class listening to the intriguing and engaging lecture of our peers regarding ethical dilemmas in the ocean. The first lecture was about ecotourism and while the concept is good and means to raise awareness, the true intentions of large companies having a much darker twist, meaning to milk the environment of its...

The Last day and the day after where memorable. We started off the last day in Virgin Gorda by eating breakfast at the teachers cabin. After breakfast we started walking down the road, to paint planters and walls close to some soccer fields and buildings. It was a very rewarding and somewhat relaxing experience. Then we head back to...

Group C’s ecotourism article really made me think about the negatives of ecotourism like never before. It brought issues to my attention such as how tourists are not as careful as they should be and how they could really cause damage to the areas they are touring. Group D’s article, taught me about how damaging a species moving...

Today was a pretty calm day for me personally. As usual we started out by leaving for breakfast at the Old Yard. Breakfast was followed by a presentation from Laura about all the different types of sea life in Virgin Gorda. She spoke about all different types of sea life, such as sea nails, sea urchins, grouper, jellyfish, and...

Today we woke up at the usual time and went to the marina again for breakfast. While we waited we went in to the gift shop for what would be the last time this week, since today was our last dives, and I bought 2 t-shirts and a hat. After we ate, we went out on the two boats...

Four very interesting articles thus far: 1. The one about ecotourism. Essentially, there's two sides to ecotourism. On one hand, it creates jobs for some people and creates awareness in communities about certain aspects of the environment; this is meant to motivate people to be Eco minded. On the downside, this eco-mindedness rarely lasts long, and sometimes the ecotourists cause more...

Day 4, Today was an early dive. We woke up and immediately went down to the marina to get a start on the R.M.S. Rhone dive, which I was looking forward to second most out of the entire trip. We ate breakfast while we took the boat ride there. We split it into two dives- the bow and the stern,...