2017

Synopsis I started off the day by heading down to my group's boat, the Sea Dragon, to sail to Little Dix's Bay and try to catch sea turtles with Dr. Gore, a turtle biologist who worked with A.R.K. (The Association of Reef Keepers). Even though I only spotted two green sea turtles, one near Mount Trunk and the other one...

What an interesting day. It began with us looking for invertebrates while snorkeling in Savannah Bay, which we didn't really manage to catch or find. However, the dive instructors, Becca and Tara, had invertebrates ready in a plastic tub. The coolest one was a Sea Egg Sea urchin, which sucked onto your hand and gripped you strongly when you...

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 the snorkeling today. The plans for today was to go turtle tagging and catch invertebrates to study on land. Today, plum house was in charge of breakfast. I had a...

Instead of diving we spent the day snorkeling. First, we spent three hours searching for turtles to tag. After a long time of searching and coming up with nothing we decided to be towed by the boat holding on to ropes, this allowed us to cover a lot more area. Once we spotted a turtle we went in and...

- 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 the snorkeling today. The plans for today was to go turtle tagging and catch invertebrates to study on land. Today, plum house was in charge of breakfast. I...

I was exhausted from last night so I didn't wake up till around 7:30 and I usually wake up around 5. Had a good breakfast and then got straight to learning about turtles. We were given a presentation where we learned about how in some areas turtles are endangered and in some they are not. We also learned about...

Today was very challenging waking up due to the exhausting day yesterday. Instead of waking up at the normal 7:15 we woke up at 7:30. After breakfast we saw a presentation by the head of an organization called ARK. The presentation talked about the history of sea turtles and other general facts and information. One of the things I...

After the usual 7:45 a.m. breakfast, today started off different in a sense that we headed to the wifi room for a presentation after rather then hopping in the taxi to go to the marina. Today we received a presentation by Dr. Gore, who works for ARK, a marine conversation company. She gave us background on the evolution of...

Today was a very fun but tiring day of snorkeling. We got up at 7:30 for a breakfast at lime cabin. By the end of that breakfast, I learned that my project group and I would be serving breakfast tomorrow. Once we had moved all of the supplies for the breakfast to one of our two cabins, my roommate,...