BVI – Day 5
Today, for our first dive, we went to the Kodiak Queen shipwreck and explored the rooms inside. After exploring it for around 30 minutes we resurfaced and drove to Biras Creek to observe the mangrove trees. Our dive instructors gave us a quick lesson on the different purposes mangrove trees serve on the island and told us that they...
Captain’s Log 005: July 19, 2017
Today's agenda consisted of the Kodiak Queen shipwreck dive, cleaning coral stations, and snorkeling next to mangroves in North Sound Bay. After a delicious breakfast, we headed out to board the Sea Dragon and sail out to the wreck site of the Kodiak Queen. The Kodiak Queen was one of the only surviving ships after the Attack on Pearl...
Marine Biology Trip Day 5 – Connor Lehman
Today was our fifth day here on Virgin Gorda. After I woke up, my cabin and I went to Bougainvillea cabin, where we ate breakfast. From their back porch, there are stairs that lead up to a tall rock that had an amazing view (picture attached at the bottom). From breakfast we headed to the beach and headed out...
Day 5: A Full Day on the Boat
Today, like all of our days, started off with a breakfast. But this time, the feast was in the hands of me and my project group. Instead of waiting until 7:30 to wake up, we woke up at 7:00 to begin preparing our meal. People began to arrive at the cabin at around 7:40 to grab spots on the...
It’s time for mangroves, man
Today, I did the usual routine of waking up, pack my scuba gear into a bag, eating the most depressing and mediocre breakfast ever, and then we hopped in the taxi/bus/pickup truck thing to be driven to the marina, however this day was different, we weren't doing our typical dives where we explore reefs, we were going to explore...
Blog Day 5 (7/19/17)
Today we started off our day with breakfast and then we went to get on our boats so that we could do our shipwreck dive. We dove down and saw a lot of fish such as bar jacks, tobacco fish, juvenile creoles, and more. The name of the ship which was sunk was called the Kodiak Queen, and it...
Day 5
Synopsis: We had breakfast at Robbie's and Charlie's casa this morning. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had a pathway onto a balcony that you could see the ocean from. I ate breakfast up there and enjoyed the wonderful view. Skipping ahead to the boats, we loaded up the boats with two tanks and a...
Day 5 Blog
Today like every other started with a prayer and some breakfast, this time our cabin hosted it so we had to get up extra early and set it up. Finishing up with breakfast we followed our routine and hopped on the taxi with Glenn and headed out to the docks. On the agenda for today was a wreck dive,...