Whalebone Bay Experience !

After arriving in Bermuda and getting settled with some lunch and a quick orientation of the basic rules and regulations of BIOS, we recieved our room assignments and quickly packed our gear and hiked down towards Whalebone Bay. In order to get to the Bay we had to travel along Railway Trail which was filled with beautiful breath taking views of the clear blue water, (yes Connecticut the water is the right color here), we quickly read the EDUCATIONAL signs which explained certain historical event's and research that you would not know about Bermuda as an island. With John and Jeff yelling out the name's of bird's, flower's, and organism's that we saw in the water we were expected to remember this all for the lecture and quiz that would be given out to us after dinner. When we had reached our final destination we rushed into our wetsuit, fin's, mask, and snorkel and tried to run backwards to keep from flopping over our oversized fins into the clear water. We then broke up into 3 groups of 4 pairs making each group 8 kids total, with my swimming buddy by my side I set off to explore the bottom, spending most of my time chasing every cool fish I saw. As I swam I began to feel more and more at home in the water as if I was a fish my self, after pruning my whole body including my lips we were all dragged out of the water to make it home in time for dinner. Luckily we were given time to explore the ground's before we ate, lecture began at 7 where we learned all the scientific names of the fish we would see while here. Now I'm off to bed with an early 6:30 wake up call.
Goodnight from Bermuda !

Sarah !