here I go

Getting Here… Woke up in Florida on Saturday at 5:30 AM local time (subtract three to find out what Bay Area time was). Got onto a plane with 17 seats …not full seats- I mean TOTAL seats and flew out over the ocean. (see photo when we work out how) There were more shades of blue than I could imagine! Stevens would appreciate it as nature’s version of a color exercise! We flew into Nassau the capital of the Bahamas and met up with the rest of the Earthwatch crew. What an amazing group of people from all over the country. We then boarded a slightly larger plane and flew out over the Bahaman Islands towards San Salvador. Of course my camera battery stopped working at this point and the extras where located somewhere in the belly of the plane. Note to self- keep extra batteries in the camera case at all times.


Upon arrival we all loaded our gear into our chariot (see photo when we work out how) for the week. We did not get very far before the car broke down. Actually it broke down again that afternoon. Each time the ingenuity of members of our group got it going. In the late afternoon we put on our wetsuits, masks and snorkels for a practice run in the reefs. WOW! Just putting my face down into the water and seeing coral, parrotfish, sponges and fan coral all around me was surreal. All the traveling became worth it in a matter of seconds. Try to find images of brain coral, fire coral, parrotfish, fan coral, lionfish and sting ray on the internet (or in books…books are good!) and you will have some idea of what my underwater world is looking like!

Lionfish, and fire coral, and shark protocol oh my!