It has been an eventful past two days.
We dropped our friend Oli off at the airport by kayaking yesterday. He literally plastic wrapped his bag, chucked it on the kayak, and we just dropped him off at the main door of the airport. This is classic Bermuda for you.
I started out my morning with a dive on the outer rim reef with the CRE class. The coral is absolutely spectacular here. In the first image you can see a tape measure because we were practicing our transects. This is one of the main ways reef surveys are conducted. Essentially you put out 10 meters of the tape measure and write down the name of the coral at each 20 centimeter increment. The current was quite rough today and therefore made the data collection a challenge. My partner Kaylee and I were very efficient and therefore had tons of time to explore the reef once we had finished.
This evening was particularly special because it was the third day after the new moon, which means GLOW WORMS!!! 50 minutes after sunset the worms begin to glow. The REU's wanted a challenge so we swam around from whalebone beach to a bridge on another point of land to get a better vantage point. The bioluminescence came out as well, making everything light up around us as we swam. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera so I stole a picture from an awesome Fall student. I've also included a video of the glow worms in Bermuda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFkmUC4aaM
We dropped our friend Oli off at the airport by kayaking yesterday. He literally plastic wrapped his bag, chucked it on the kayak, and we just dropped him off at the main door of the airport. This is classic Bermuda for you.
I started out my morning with a dive on the outer rim reef with the CRE class. The coral is absolutely spectacular here. In the first image you can see a tape measure because we were practicing our transects. This is one of the main ways reef surveys are conducted. Essentially you put out 10 meters of the tape measure and write down the name of the coral at each 20 centimeter increment. The current was quite rough today and therefore made the data collection a challenge. My partner Kaylee and I were very efficient and therefore had tons of time to explore the reef once we had finished.
This evening was particularly special because it was the third day after the new moon, which means GLOW WORMS!!! 50 minutes after sunset the worms begin to glow. The REU's wanted a challenge so we swam around from whalebone beach to a bridge on another point of land to get a better vantage point. The bioluminescence came out as well, making everything light up around us as we swam. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera so I stole a picture from an awesome Fall student. I've also included a video of the glow worms in Bermuda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFkmUC4aaM
We ended the night around a campfire at whalebone, making plans for the weekend and the rest of the fall semester!
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