Thursday March 24  

Greetings to everyone in the 716,

Dinner at local establishment 

Although the weather has not been cooperating like we had hoped, our very nice intern staff at ForFar have always had a backup adventure waiting for us. After a solid breakfast we sat in on an invasive species lecture prepared by one of the interns, based on lionfish. Following the lecture, each of use were given a lionfish to examine and dissect. Our intern, Tyler, prepared the specimens by removing the venomous spines found on dorsal, pelvic, and anal fins. We carefully observed the anatomy of the fish while keeping the fish's organs intact. So not being able to snorkel due to not particularly high winds ,but unsafe boating winds, we ventured to the vans with our female interns Dale and Allison. The whole group with the exception of Miss Palmer didn't know where we were going. Our mystery adventure was a nice hour long hike to Rainbow Blue Hole. In the blue hole, we swam down to catch a view of some underwater caves and got our feet nibbled by mosquito fish. Mosquito fish feed on dead skin on our feet. On the hike back, we took a side path towe a shelter that was featured in the show Naked and Afraid. When we got back, before dinner, we sat in on a lecture by Dr. Derek Peterson from a group called Secore , which works to reproduce coral. In his lecture he explained coral reproduction and hopes to make coral repopulation in the  Bahamas as successful in thier native Curacao. Following the lecture we went to a local cusine, MJ's for traditonal  Bahamian meal. The food was delicious consisting of conch,chicken,red snapper and a square kind of mac and cheese. Stuffed from dinner, we headed back to listen to Ethan and Kim's presentation of Blue hole and National parks. Following Ethan and Kim,Jake and I gave our sick presentation on island devlopment in Andros as well as expressing our opinions on the matter. It was an action packed second last day. Signing off at 9:56pm.

Keepin' it cool with Daddy Cool

Chris not naked but afraid