2014 Week 1

After a long day of traveling yesterday, I woke up at about 6:45, anxious to start the day and begin a great adventure. Everyone waited at the cattle guard outside of our homes for the ride to breakfast to begin our lesson over the marine life in BVI. We debated over current events regarding marine life as well as...

Alarm goes off at 7:00am this morning. Not a cell phone alarm or a call from a chaperone, but nature's alarm– a crowing rooster. Still recovering from jet lag from the previous day's travels, my two roommates and I stumbled around the house to, somehow, eventually find ourselves outside and ready for a day of diving. But before getting...

After a long, delayed, and interesting day of travel, it was nearly 9 o clock and completely dark when the shade of Virgin Gorda came into view. Traveling all day had everyone irritable and undeniably ready for sleep, but of course the people in my cabin, Riley and Jack, and myself included talked into the hours of the night...

Today the Jasmine cabin, consisting of Jackson, Chase, Liam, Luke, and myself, awoke around 7 AM for breakfast. It was a rough night sleep, for my body has yet to adjust to the humid climate and lack of an air conditioning system. After breakfast, Casey, Jeff, Jeremy, and the gang gave us an introduction to the island...

After a long day of travel, I had slept through the night like a baby. I woke up right around 6:30, got situated, and then decided that I would get some pictures of our view in the early morning. After a few minutes of taking pictures the roosters started to crow, which waked the remainder of my cabin (Andrew...

Today started off with a beautiful sunrise and a constant greeting from the two roosters that live under our hut. After a quick car ride to another hotel, we met up with Casey, Jeff, and the other dive instructors we would be enjoying this amazing week with. After a nourishing breakfast, we had a brief presentation and each of...

After a long day of traveling yesterday, I woke up at about 6:45, anxious to start the day and begin a great adventure. Everyone waited at the cattle guard outside of our homes for the ride to breakfast to begin our lesson over the marine life in BVI. We debated over current events regarding marine life as well as...

Today, July 16, was mostly an introduction day to the area and the activities of the area. We began by waking up and driving to a Virgin Gorda hotel and restaurant where we would eat breakfast. Next, we had a class, our only class of the trip. It consisted of a few slide shows introducing the...

Well, after a long day of travel yesterday, I was ready for a full day of diving today. However, the night did not go undisturbed, as Jack, Christian, and I found a scorpion in our room at around 10:30 last night. That had me up for a while, paranoid that I would have thousands of scorpions crawling all over...