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Catching Rays
This morning we had dish duty, helping out the fantastic kitchen staff with setting out food and washing up. So many dirty dishes… We split into groups today – mine went to Deep Creek to hunt for stingrays. The creeks were expanses of shallow, milky-blue water through which we spent all day wading. They weren’t…
eo271 January 5th, 2018 Bahamas Bahamas, FieldBahamas, mangroves, Marine Biology, research, stingrays, wildlife
Island Tours
This morning we woke up to wind howling around the dorm, but the sun was shining and the island looked like a true tropical paradise! We all splashed into the water for a swim before breakfast. Afterwards we rinsed off using precious seconds in the showers – we’re limited to one minute of water per…
eo271 January 4th, 2018 Bahamas Bahamas, FieldBahamas, Marine Biology, stingrays, sustainable living
Habitat-Builders: Mangroves and Seagrass
Today is the day I flew out! My journey didn’t start as smoothly as it could have done – I’d misread my travel details and thought the flight was two hours later than it actually was (top travel tip – don’t do that). I’m grateful to everyone who helped rush me through the airport and…
eo271 January 2nd, 2018 Bahamas Bahamas, conservation, FieldBahamas, mangroves, Marine Biology, seagreass
Habitat-Builders: Coral
2017 is drawing to a close, which means our field course is just a flip of the calendar away! Some students are already in the Caribbean, bringing in the New Year with style – wherever you are, I wish you a happy one! If all the celebrations have left you little time for research, I’ve…
eo271 December 31st, 2017 Bahamas Bahamas, conservation, Coral, FieldBahamas, Marine Biology
Getting hands on with wildlife!
We finished our field course with even more fantastic hands-on experiences, here are our final few days in the Bahamas: Reefs We had the pleasure of being led by Brad Weiler and Drew Hitchner on a Coral reef fish survey, which turned out to be the perfect preparation for our fish identification test towards…
lbj203 January 24th, 2017 Bahamas, Bahamas archive Bahamas, conservation, Coral, Field Course Fornight, FieldBahamas, Fish, marine, Reefs, Sea turtles, Shark, univeristyofexeter