2015 Week 1

My alarm clock didn't have a snooze button this morning. This is because I was woken up by the inaudible shrieks of Noah trying to wake me up. After the same old story with breakfast, we headed to our dive boat to start the day with a breathtaking descent to the RMS Rhone. This ship was...

Miles and I after our project dive Photocreds @ Doc This morning pretty much started off like yesterday morning, until we got to the boats Today Casey taught us the fundamentals and importance of coral conservation, and on our first dive Miles and I cleaned off one of the many BVI coral nursery trees. Afterwards we had a pleasant snack on...

I woke up this morning and was sad when I realized it was my last day on Virgin Gorda. However, my day got a lot better when Casey brought us giant donuts for breakfast. (They tasted incredible.) At breakfast Casey also briefed us about how we would be doing a beach cleanup as part of our day of service....

The morning started early today, I woke up at 4:15 and headed promptly to dfw airport to catch our plane to Costa Rica. The flight was long, but we had an amazing view of the ocean and islands below us. Needless to say however, when we arrived in Costa Rica, I was eager to get off of the plane....

Day 3 was exhausting and still not over. We have a few hours to write this and organize the data from our first project dive today. After that we are going to do a night snorkel... Well I'm just got back from the night snorkel and it was quite hectic! We are going to start from the beginning of...

Today I once again woke up to the beautiful sound of birds chirping and the feral roosters crowing. As always, the alarm only woke me up, so I had to wake Xander and Jack up. We then got ready and went to breakfast at Mark's cabin. Today we were treated with the usual cereal and fruit, but today Casey...

At the beginning of today, the whole marine biology group went to have breakfast at the marine biology two cabin, which consists of four seniors. On the marine biology trip, the students switch off setting up breakfast for the rest of the Jesuit marine biology group, so tomorrow a different cabin with students will set up breakfast. After breakfast,...

First on the agenda, we had breakfast at Mango cabin, which includes John A., Noah, Robert W., and Brock. After breakfast, we went down to the dock to split up into our dive boats, the Sea Monkey and the Sea Dragon. On the Sea Dragon, we nautically drove to Ginger Island to scuba dive. Gazz briefed us on the...

I started my day off with breakfast at Tamarind cabin, which included Wyatt and Miles. Miles made eggs which was great because we've never had eggs yet on this whole trip. Tamarind cabin is different because they have a opening on one of their porches' rails that leads to the top of a giant boulder.  After breakfast our marine biology...