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
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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
Living Like Puerto Ricans – Day 2
Nothing says, “Bienvendidos a Culebra, Puerto Rico” like “Oh, remember last night when you were looking for turtles but were unsuccessful? Yea, there were some around the corner.” However, today was our first full dayContinue reading
Hello and Goodbye Old San Juan!
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
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