I have been back in civilization for 5 days now and I can honestly say that I wish I was still in Little Cayman. We filled out a survey after the trip and one of the questions asked, “Rank the length of the trip from too short to too long.” I ranked it too short […]
Departure
I unfortunately came home from the Cayman Islands last night around 12 AM, so, I did not have time to write a post the night before I left because I had to wake up early to pack the next morning. Anyway, the last few days in Little Cayman were some of the best of my […]
Day 14 in Little Cayman
Since the last time I’ve posted we have gone on several research dives for our projects. We are getting to the point where we are consolidating the data we collected, and putting together our posters. Each group is going to submit their poster electronically to conferences to be able to broadcast the results they have […]
Day 11 in Little Cayman
Since the last time I’ve posted I have gone on five more dives. Three of them consisted of collecting data for our projects. My specific project is identifying coral bleaching by running 10-m transects and identifying the coral that is underneath the transect and giving each coral a bleach index. My group submitted our proposal […]
Sundays in Little Cayman
During the week in Little Cayman we have a jam packed schedule and we don’t get much of free time, but it’s okay because we’re mostly diving and snorkeling. I actually took a coral identification test yesterday where we had to SCUBA dive down and name 19 coral species and determine their bleach index; I […]
Day 4 in Little Cayman
I have been in Little Cayman for four days now and my first impression of the island is unbelievable. The local population is 150 people; there are 5 children in their school and everyone knows everyone. I’ve heard of small towns, but never small countries like that. We ride bikes everywhere we go, and there […]