After a second restful night in our hotel rooms, we woke up early Friday morning, excited for another snorkeling trip! We ate another quick breakfast at El Mason, this time struggling less to order offContinue reading
Category: Puerto Rico – 2012
All work and no play, sort of
Our visit to the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla and the Isabella coastline. I’ll start by saying that not all of us were exactly happy to have to sit in a lecture hall listeningContinue reading
Natalie Alberman and Sasha Doss
CEM, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2012, students, travel
CEM, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2012, students, travel
“I Like Tourtles”
On April 25th, after a night of cleaning and packing with full stomachs, we lay fast asleep in our beds when we got a call from Scooby and Rita about a leatherback at Zoni! “She’sContinue reading
A Diet of Glass
Today was our last full day in Culebra, and we certainly made the most of every moment. After a full night of searching for nesting leatherbacks, we headed out on the boats again. But thisContinue reading
Where’s the Wind When You Need It???
Today started out in a similar fashion to the previous two or three. When we got back from our nightly beach patrol the sun was up, the roosters were crowing, and so it was timeContinue reading
Snorkeling by Day, Watching by Night
Our ‘day’ began at 12:00 midnight in another all night-er at the three beaches. On Zoni, Rita, Wendy, Kristin, Sasha, Natalie, and Angela found the beach to be relatively uneventful, or so they thought.Continue reading
Attack of the Sand Gnats
The toss up: to be cold from the wind but have no bugs, or to be warm, windless, and eaten alive!
Natalie Alberman and Sasha Doss
CEM, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2012, students, travel, Video Posts
CEM, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2012, students, travel, Video Posts
Wishing for a Leatherback
On Friday morning, April 20th, we and two more technicians all piled into the two boats from Thursday for a cozy ride to Manglar Bay on the eastern tip of the island of Culebra. There,Continue reading
A Day of Firsts!
It all began at 9 am on Thursday morning. We all piled into two boats and traveled out to Tortuga Bay at Culebrita Island for some green sea turtle field research. The water was superContinue reading
Greetings From Turtle Land!
After all our very early morning flights (nothing like being up before the sun!) the group arrived in sunny San Juan. We quickly gathered our belongings, and scurried off into our awaiting van somehow managingContinue reading