2015 Week 1

I don't think I have ever woken up so quickly in my life.  At 3:30 my alarm went off and I jumped out of bed immediately.  This trip has been on my mind all summer long.  After a routine morning, The drive to the airport seemed to take forever, especially since I had drank a little caffeine.  Then the...

Today I woke up to a beautiful sunrise, then I fell asleep again two minutes later. Luckily, my alarm woke me up...but not Xander, so I had to wake him up again. I then got changed into my swimsuits with chafe protection (compression shorts), and had a nice hardy bowl of fruit loops for breakfast. We then got aboard...

  

Today started out with breakfast at our house, the Lime House. We set up the table with the same things as the other days. After breakfast, my boat, the Sea Monkey, was dropped at the docks to go sea turtle tagging. My tagging group, of myself, Cooper, Bobby, Reese, and Luke. We are basically professional turtle taggers after...

Today was a pretty good day. I finished the Running Man (much better than the movie) on the plane and I arrived in paradise. We arrived in the Virgin Islands around 6:30 ish. From there we got on Dive BVI's boat and went to the island Virgin Gorda. The cabin that Xander, Jack, Brock, and I got today was...

After a much needed night of sleep, Jack, Xander, and I went for a quick morning run. Along our short run, we saw Glen driving to the Baths to deliver ice, and we went back to go to breakfast. Breakfast was once again a hardy bowl of fruit loops without milk and a biscuit with apple juice from South...

Today was my first full day in the BVI. My day started bright and early at 7am. After getting ready for the day, my cabin headed down as a group to breakfast which was scheduled at 7:30. Once everyone had finished eating breakfast the exciting part of the day began. At the entrance of Guava Berry Resort we were...

Our day began at 7:30 where we met at the teachers house for a pleasent breakfast. Afterwards we gathered our gear and headed out on the Sea Dragon (Our Teams Boat for the week) for our first dive. Once under the water we were of the basics of scuba, and afterwards we explored the sea floor and our hilarious...

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...