2012 Week 2

Moral Eels are snake-like fish live in holes in the reef. You can distiguish moray eels by their moray long, slender, snake-like body, combined with a large set of jaws. Most species have long, sharp canine teeth but some do have low, nodular teeth. They are usually one to two metres long, though some species will reach up...

The Rock Beauty Angelfish, or Holacanthuss tricolor, is a marine fish commonly found in the Gulf of Mexico. As a whole, the majority of the fish is yellow with a large black spot on its body. They feed mostly on sponges as well as some tunicates and algae. The Rock Beauty always starts out as female but has the...

Day 2: Today started off with another early morning that proved to be too early for some people. Many people showed up late to the usual morning meeting spot. Whenever everyone was there we loaded up the taxi and headed to the olde yard where we met up with our dive guides and had a good breakfast. After breakfast Casey...

Interesting last few days in the BVI. On tuesday we woke up with an early 7:45 rise to start our last day. We then headed upto our teachers' cabin where we had a light breakfast. It was the first time we were instructed not to bring our diving gear out with us. And instead of Glen giving us a...

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...

Group C had an article about ecotourism and how it is affecting areas and the well being of the local people. This article goes into detail about how people may become aware of the need of conservation in these areas but still enjoy the aspects if ignoring the conservation behaviors. Group D had an article concerning how invasive species affect...

Today I woke up, with difficulty I would admit, at 7:20ish and walked down to the cattle guard. Glen, our taxi driver, drove us down to the marina where we got to go to the shops and look at souvenirs to buy before going on our dive. We ate breakfast on the marina, a delicious croissant, apple slices, banana...

The above photo was taken from the patio of Cedar Cabin, in which Chris, Dylan and I are staying. When pulling up near our cabin after a long, but worthwhile, trip, one of our dive instructors, Casey, informed us that we would be staying in "one of the...

Last night I set an alarm on my phone for 7, but at 6:59, a chicken sitting right outside my shutters started shrieking and woke me up before my alarms could. I got up, took a shower, and got ready to go to Olde Yarde for orientation. We took a taxi over to breakfast and got a rundown of...