Our first activity of the day was a trip into the rainforest to see one of St. Croix’s biggest tourist attractions: drinking pigs. This attraction has been around for over 40 years on the islandContinue reading
Category: Puerto Rico – 2013
The End… Or the Beginning?
Today was the last day of the trip. The past three nights with groups patrolling the beach at Sandy Point have all been successful. Altogether, we recorded 11 nesting leatherbacks and 2 nesting green turtles,Continue reading
Matthew Godfrey, Ph.D.
conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2013, students, travel
conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2013, students, travel
The Importance of Zero
One of the main objectives of this field trip is to provide the exceptional opportunity to interact directly with wild sea turtles and the researchers who work with them. As you can tell from someContinue reading
Leatherbacks and Lounging
This story begins at 12am, on the beach, under a sky full of stars in Sandy Point, St. Croix. We had begun patrolling at 8pm the previous day and had already seen one green turtleContinue reading
Leatherback Late Night
After an early wake up call, we caught the 6:30 am ferry from Culebra to San Juan. We had planned on checking our luggage in early so that we could explore Old San Juan, butContinue reading
Elizabeth Hoerauf
CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2013, students, travel
CEM, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, marine studies, Puerto Rico - 2013, students, travel
Wrestling More Green Turtles -Day 5
We woke up this morning at a delightful 7am in order to go to Culebrita to look for more sea turtles; however, the boat ride turned into quite an adventure! The waves soaked us allContinue reading
Almost Adios, Culebra – Day 6
Today was another early morning and our last full day in Culebra. We left the house at 7 am to revisit Brava Beach and Resaca Beach in the hopes of locating freshly laid leatherback nests.Continue reading
Hands on Hawksbills
It was another beautiful and sunny day in Culebra. We woke up around 7:30 this morning to be on the road by 8:00 and in the water by 9:00. The plan was to meet upContinue reading
Making a Splash!
Our morning began at an astonishing 6:30 am, when we all piled into the jeeps and drove to Brava Beach and Resaca Beach to perform morning crawl counts. Half of us went to each beach,Continue reading
Let the Adventures Begin!
The adventure began at 4am at the Raleigh Durham International Airport where our team of 10 students gathered to make the long journey to Puerto Rico! After our initial 30 minute flight to Charlotte, weContinue reading