Day two at the Island School was AWESOME! The day began at 6:00am as usual with a bike tour around the island. The group saw things like the beach where we will scuba dive next week, the path to the marina, and the rising sun over the trees along our path. We went on to breakfast next and enjoyed a few bowls of cereal or granola. After getting some energy we went out to the first of TWO snorkels for the day. Liz, our fabulous instructor down here at the Island school, gave us a lesson on how reefs work.
Our first destination was called Fourth Hole and we spent about 45 minutes exploring the fish and coral living in the reef. A lot of the members of the group described this event as one of their “happy moments” for the day. After adjusting to the cold water, we saw hundreds of wildlife such as Christmas tree worms, hexacoral, barracuda, and firecoral. After brushing off the excitement of seeing all of the fish, we headed back to school for lunch. And being Sunday funday, we had leftovers from the whole week. Yum!
Then right after lunch, the group headed to the presentation room to learn about all of the different types of fish that live in our surrounding waters. We put our swimsuits and rash guards right back on, still wet from our morning adventures, and headed back out to the ocean to look at another reef. This reef was quite a bit deeper, meaning warmer water, giving everyone a chance to practice their duck dives while snorkeling. At this reef we NATURE all around us! We saw a majority of the fish we had talked about in class earlier, which was exciting because we got to make connections between the classroom and the real world.
We came back from this to a delicious dinner followed by an extremely interesting talk about sea turtles. After this talk everyone is really looking forward to our turtle research on Tuesday and Wednesday of this coming week.
Then right after lunch, the group headed to the presentation room to learn about all of the different types of fish that live in our surrounding waters. We put our swimsuits and rash guards right back on, still wet from our morning adventures, and headed back out to the ocean to look at another reef. This reef was quite a bit deeper, meaning warmer water, giving everyone a chance to practice their duck dives while snorkeling. At this reef we NATURE all around us! We saw a majority of the fish we had talked about in class earlier, which was exciting because we got to make connections between the classroom and the real world.
We came back from this to a delicious dinner followed by an extremely interesting talk about sea turtles. After this talk everyone is really looking forward to our turtle research on Tuesday and Wednesday of this coming week.
- Isabella & Matt
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