First friday in South Caicos

The big island in the picture is Dove Cay. The rocks to the left of the island are called HDL for Huey Duey and Louis.

This is a pic from before I left. Chloe didn't like the snorkel gear.

This is a pic of Miss May's house. She was one of the governor's last wives. As you can tell by the pic, the house is abandoned. We went inside and walked straight into a termite nest, turned around and saw a hornets nest, so we booked it out of there.

Hola amigos,

The weather here is still hot and humid. Yesterday was 92 with like 1000% humidity and it actually rained for like 5 minutes. Today the high is 88. Both yesterday and today we had 3 lectures in the morning and then went snorkeling in the afternoon. We had tropical marine ecology on both days to learn about seagrass ecology. We also had an introduction to environmental policy as well as an intro to natural resource management yesterday. Today we just had tropical marine ecology then we had environmental policy twice. After class in the morning yesterday, we went to East Bay to snorkel. We looked at mangroves, all sorts of fish, and we saw turtle grass as well as shole grass. Today we went snorkeling at Moxybush island. We saw more mangroves and this time we saw a bunch of baby barracuda as well as a huge school of some sort of needlefish (Devin our instructor didn't know the real name of them).

Tonight we will be hearing presentations on the different research projects that are going on here. We get to pick which one we like the best and then that is the research project we get to work on for our directed research project.