2017

This is my final blog post. Today was a amazing day but it was very exhausting. We started the day off with a nice breakfast and then went on our way to the public high school too do work. It is easily fair to say that me and Keagan had to hardest job out there to begin with. After...

Today was a very fun day. This is my 4th blog post and I am having a great time. Today we went to see the Kodak queen and we visited another great site. The Kodak queen was a very fun experience because it was very cool to see a sunken ship. The kraken added a great twist too shipwreck....

The morning started off with an alarm on my iPhone of Apple's "night owl" ringtone at 7:20. Immediately afterwards, I hopped out of my bed and got dressed for something different than the usual of diving and snorkeling. Today, we had service planned at the nearby high school! Another house was in charge of breakfast this morning, so we...

Today fletcher woke me up at 7:20 and I did not want to wake up at all. We got up and got breakfast at boug and then went straight to work at the local public high school and primary school . This school was severely underfunded and there was only about 140 kids between the two. Me and Nicky...

To finish our trip with a bang, we started the day with community service at the local primary and high school. We were all given different tasks as we rotated jobs. Some tasks included: laying gravel and soil to plant flowers and other plants, laying cement to keep pillars in place, digging and carrying buckets of soil and gravel,...

Starting off the day with a quick lesson about turtles, we recapped information regarding lifespan, migration patterns, and levels of endangerment of sea turtles. Despite popular belief, I learned that most sea turtles are not endangered. Some sea turtles, like the Hawksbill Turtle, are endangered in some areas, but have been deemed "least concerned" in other areas. Being in...

Another day gone and more memories made. Today we officially started our project dives. On the first dive me and my group (Peter, Nicky, Keagan, and Sloan) dove down the Ginger Steps to observe the relationship between coral and and algae. We noticed that where there was an abundance of algae there was little to no coral. However, the...

Synopsis Today during my first dive, I explored the Kodiak Queen ship wreck, and discovered that the same ship was one of the few surviving ships from Pearl Harbor during WWII. Later on, I went to a coral nursery to fully clean up a coral tree. It was a difficult task because I had to try to avoid touching the...

After a delightful breakfast of dry cereal, I managed to drag my self out of my bed after after a 15 minute nap to head down to the marina with my classmates. By now, I've firmly cemented myself as the trip DJ resulting in me playing some killer tunes on the way to the harbor. As usual, my boat...