2017

Today we conducted our research projects and tested our hypothesis during our dives at both sides of Ginger island to see if parrot fish visit "cleaning stations" - an area in the coral reefs with dense groups of cleaner fish that remove parasites and other harmful organisms from larger fish - less frequently than other fish. From our dives,...

Even though this is blog 6 I am writing this on our travel back home. On our last full day the teachers held breakfast outside of their cabin. Instead of the routine of afterwards heading to the docks, we headed to the main school on the island. For our service project, we were tasked with remodeling part of the school...

The day began with the standard breakfast, the standard trip to the marina, and the normal setup routine. Strangely, our first dive provided little excitement, as we saw nothing notable save for a handful of stingrays. Our second dive, despite taking place around an airplane wreck, provided even less excitement. The real fun only began after lunch, when the...

Day 2Today was all about business. We started off the day with my cabin serving breakfast. It was once again: cereal, honey buns, guava juice, granola bars, and strawberry newtons. It was all served by my cabin which means it was the best breakfast ever. We then proceeded to go down to the marina and meet with our diving...

Today has been quite exhausting, and my body feels like it's caught on fire, but before I get to that part, let us recap the day together now shall we? This morning my cabin was chosen to make breakfast again, which was honestly pretty great, having to get up 30 minutes earlier to get first choice of food, and...

Starting off the day with breakfast at the Alamanda cabin, we got our food and headed back to our cabins to start off the day. We got in our taxi and started off to the boats where we loaded our tanks and got our gear ready to dive. Our first site was back at the Chimney, except this time...

Today, once again, started with the usual cereal and juice, but at least they had apples this time. However, as bland as the breakfast has seemingly become, today was the most exciting day yet. Today we started out the day with hearing from a British virgin island sea turtle expert. We learned about sea turtle conservation and what types...

Nicholas Slayton, Last night, I didn't get much sleep, so in the morning, I was quite tired. After breakfast, the group went down to the Dive BVI shop, and got kitted out for our two dives. On our boat, there was Mr. Vonn, Mr. Zoltan, Ms. Tara, and Ms. Becca, as well as my group, Trip, Tyler, and Matthew, along...

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...