So its official class is now in sessions, however I did find some time to play today. This morning we had to get up at 5:30 for orientation. It was pretty good. Most of the faculty and administration spoke. They just explained the school and where we need to go to get help. Then we had lunch and back to orientation. It lasted over eight hours. After orientation we decided to walk back to the residence hall. Its about 2 miles so it was a pretty good walk. Since it was still going to be light for a while we decided to go snorkeling. My room is located right on the beach so its pretty awesome to walk right outside and go. My roomates parents decided to get new snorkeling gear and donated the rest to me. So now I can go all I want. We spent and hour just swimming around and getting a pretty good workout. Pictured below are my shell findings on the beach near my room and the fish that we saw while we were out. There were plenty of other kinds of fish but I don't know what their names are...yet.
(The mouth is lettuce from the BBQ they had tonight.
Clownfish
Nassau Grouper
Angelfish
Trumpetfish
Blue Tang
Parrotfish
Paddletail
Sergeant Majors
This is a triggerfish. We saw a huge one. My roomate said that he has never seen one as big as the one we saw today and he has been snorkeling for hears. It was about 2 feet from head to tail and 1 foot from dorsal to belly. We had to go around because we think we angered it. It started to do a defensive dance and apparently they attack and bite when provoked. Crazy enough as part of the dance you could hear it jaws snapping underwater. It was awesome.
Fireworm
4 comments:
Man, I should have gone to medical school. I didn't know you got to go snorkeling and to turtle farms. That beats driving anyday. Just kidding. I'm sure it will be plenty hard. Nice pics.
you took all these pics??? that is some AMAZING scenery. Do they offer elective courses at school? surfing? scuba? marine physiology/anat? sunbathing?
Bryan! That looks so fun. Funny thing about Triggers - we have one - and we laugh because when he gets mad you can hear him snap his jaws too. Ours is about 2 inches and I get scared when I feed him that he'll bite my finger off. I wouldn't want to run into an angry 2 foot trigger. It looks like tons of fun there. But when I read about it I just feel sad that Laura's not there with you! :)
that looks like so much fun! i thought you went there for school. i'm just jealous! good to see things are going well!!
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