2015 Week 2

Today was our last day that we got in the water to dive. It started with team Sea Dragon going to the coral nursery to clean the coral trees. We were supposed to go and clean off the algae and gunk that had collected on the trees in the past week. The trees had five branches and held ten...

Today we were split from the Marine 2 group. While they went off to a place called Necker Island. The rest of us stayed behind to study invertebrates and (try) to tag some turtles. First, we went snorkeling on a beach to catch and study some invertebrates. We caught a fire worm, a centipede-like creature that shot stinging needles,...

It is amazing that today was the very last day, this trip went by so fast. We started off today with eating some delicious and gigantic chocolate donuts. We then did a beach cleanup, which involved us picking up pieces of a catamaran that crashed a few months ago. It was very difficult to get to this spot. We...

Today the diving was equally as incredible as our first day, as we encountered an abundance of marine life and even ran into new creatures that we previously only imagined. Our first stop was further out than Saturday's excursion, bringing us all the way out to Ginger Island, where we descended at a location known as the ginger steps....

Day 3 began like the previous day's with breakfast at 7:30 and Glen picking us up in the taxi at 8:20 to take us to the marina. We headed out on the boat ride to salt island to dive the wreck of the RMS Rhone. The Rhone had been a luxury ship and typically held people who were very...

Breakfast was supposed to be hosted by my cabin this morning, key word "supposed". Two of the 3 of my cabin-mates had gotten sick the night before, leaving Doc and Mr. Von with the decision to move breakfast from our cabin to theirs to prevent anybody else from getting sick. In the end, both got well and nobody else...

Today has been my favorite day so far. We started the day off like every other day with cereal, eggs, sausage, and fruit. After we finished our meal we got on the taxi and headed down to the marina to start our jam packed day. We were told our first dive site would be the RMS Rhone. I have...

If anyone told me any other day that I would be waking up at 8am, I would have been moaning and groaning, but this morning, it felt glorious. Today was our last full day on the beautiful Virgin Gorda. Casey shook up our usually breakfast today and brought us huge delicious donuts. After we scarfed down our life sized...

Today was our last day living in paradise, and I will be extremely sad to have to leave tomorrow. Part of the day is dedicated to service and the other is a relaxation time. Our service site was on the shoreline where a big sailboat had gone astray off a mooring ball, and ran ashore. We collected all the...