Location: Cane Garden Bay, Tortola
It’s official, the amount of peanut butter our boat consumes as a whole is concerning. It seems that every meal we somehow find a way to incorporate peanut butter. This morning we woke up and started out the day with breakfast, which was oatmeal. And surprise, surprise, the peanut butter was brought out. It was a hard morning for Zoe because we ran out of apples, so her normal apple and peanut butter became just a spoonful of peanut butter. We finished eating and dishy pitting while under, then Zoe, Addy, Kennedy, and I all worked on our friendship bracelets. My water bottle is now covered in strings for all the bracelets I’m making. When we anchored, all the dolphins went turtle tagging. It was not very successful, considering we saw a grand total of 0 Turtles. But Dylan and Arthur said it was funny to see all of them just getting towed around the boat. We then ate lunch, where Maddie beat her fear of hot cheese by trying a quesadilla.
After lunch, we moved to a new spot to dive. Here, dolphins continued our research dives. Zoe, Maddie, Addy, and I counted the number of goby on different-sized coral heads. We also did not get lost, which, for me and Maddie, is always a win. Kennedy, Maya, and Gabe continued to study damsel fish aggression. The Neptunes had a fun div.e Sloane, Breckyn, Ellory, Arther, and Dylan all said they were glad they were able to successfully navigate back to the boat. When we got back, we were able to take down below showers, so we all feel extra clean. Maddie and Ellory then started dinner, which would have been pretty good if it hadn’t been for the lettuce in the salad being frozen and then becoming extremely mushy. I don’t think a single bite of the salad was eaten. Now as I write this everyone else is doing dishy pit, and we dropped another fork which is quite unfortunate as we already don’t have enough, meals have become a race of who is able to use a fork and who is stuck with a spoon. We will have to see who gets sacrificed to free dive down for it. It’s also raining, which created the most gorgeous sunset. Tonight we will hopefully get to sleep early, as we need to wake up at 6 am for a hike tomorrow. X