Today's News from Roatan.
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| First dive of the day |
Hello Eagle Nation this is Josh Schmit here with your news from Roatan about Tuesday April 11th. Today we woke up like any other day to the birds chirping and the nice tropical breeze blowing. For breakfast I had a ham and cheese omelet with a side of bacon, cinnamon rolls and fruit with orange juice. Once we were done with breakfast, we headed down to the classroom area for a lecture on corals. This was a pretty interesting lecture because we got to see the names of all the things that we had seen on all of our snorkeling trips so far. Once the lecture was done, we went out to the boat and got ready for our first snorkel trip of the day. For this trip, we went to a reef called Peter's Place.
This was a pretty cool dive and we saw lots of fish that we talked about in the fish lecture the night before. We saw a black durgon, sea urchin, trumpet fish and even a barracuda.
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| Black Durgon |
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| Sea urchin |
When we were finished with that dive, we went back to the island for a little relaxing by the pool before lunch. For lunch, I had a Cuban Sandwich that had pork, cheese and pickles on it. We had a little more downtime before the next snorkel. Harley and I decided to go down to the clubhouse to play ping pong....he beat me 7 times. By the time we were done with that we had to go to the next snorkel dive and we went out to the northeastern side of the island. This time we saw a school of blue tang fish with trumpet fish mixed in. We also saw lots of knobby brain coral and all different colors of parrot fish.We had yet another lecture when we returned from snorkeling and this one was about the invertebrates of the reef. This was a day jammed pack with activities and we weren't done yet because we were going night snorkeling. This was probably my favorite snorkel of the trip so far because it was so cool to see all of the fish that are mainly out at night.
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Lobster
We saw lobsters, crabs, and even a shrimp. We got back just in time for dinner which was grilled sea bass and rice. Well that's your news for the day for the NCMBC trip this is Josh Schmit signing off.
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Wow the night dive sounds really cool and you saw a Barracuda!. I can't wait to see more pictures. I think you need to practice up on your ping pong Josh! Can't wait to hear about todays adventures!!!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are having fun. Enjoy the adventure. Yes definitely practice up on the ping pong.
ReplyDeleteYeah he keeps reminding me about the ping pong. The night dive was defiantly the best though.
ReplyDeleteJosh, you made me feel like I was back at school, watching you on the morning announcements! LOL The night snorkel sounds incredible, glad you guys had that opportunity! So Harley can beat you in ping pong, but can he beat you in soccer? Hmmm ...
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to (Sarah's?) update tonight! :D
Josh- I don't think anyone can beat Harley in ping pong. Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun. Night time snorkeling sounds cool. Can't wait till the next update.
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