2015 Week 1

Today my cabin was in charge of preparing breakfast for the group, and everything went smoothly. Afterwards Glen picked us up, and we headed off to the marina. Once on the boat, Gaz told us we would be diving at the infamous ginger steps, a dive site known to be home to many very large fish species. We were...

Today I woke up at 3:30 to get ready to set out for the airport. I arrived at the airport around 4:45 and met up with my marine biology group at the gate. After going through security we were given the chance to go wander around and get breakfast from one of the restaurants around our terminal. We then...

It's finally here. The last day of living in paradise. Half of me feels kinda happy because I get to see my family and friends, and the other half feels sad that I'm leaving this heaven. Instead of waking up at seven, I would be getting up at seven fifteen in order to help my cabin set up breakfast...

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...

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....

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....

  

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...

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...