Helloooo!

Still researching here!

Daily dives and all that. Today is the second to last one though, at least for research. We have one more REEF survey on Monday because we screwed up a survey last week and went to the wrong site. I've had a lot of good dives lately! At our last REEF survey at Mid-Cut, I saw an octopus and at The Plane, we heard the humpback whales! They were pretty far off, but you could hear them really well. I'm bringing my camera today, so you'll be able to see pictures of the Plane. It's a really cool site. Hopefully we'll see some cool shark or ray or something.

Other noteworthy stuff....

Went cliff jumping again on Sunday. Found a bigger cliff! It was probably 35 feet tall and it was SUCH an adrenaline rush. SO much fun. I'm going to miss that a lot. Florida doesnt have any good cliffs :( haha.

Also saw the whales again yesterday! We were all sitting around, playing dominoes in the morning, as usual, when someone said they saw a spout just past shark alley. So all of us run to the conch wall and sure enough, there were a couple of whale spouts off the coast. After a little pestering of the professors, we got Tim to take the boat out. We didn't get in the water with them this time, but we did get pretty close in the boat. It's still a really awesome experience.

We have another invitational dinner tonight with all the government officials of South Caicos, so after lunch we'll be cleaning up the center and getting ready for dinner. It'll be really nice to see everyone all dressed up again. It reminds us that we're real human beings who bathe and clean up quite nicely.

This weekend will probably be pretty relaxing, but its our last weekend of outreach!! :( Next weekend we're presenting our research projects to the community. Only two more weekends left! It's sad, I'm not ready to leave South just yet.

Next week is all paper writing and data crunching and waterfront activities.


That's about all for now! I'll try to put some new pictures up in the next few days!