{"id":270,"date":"2013-01-24T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/geologyofbermuda\/?p=270"},"modified":"2013-01-25T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:09:56","slug":"270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/geologyofbermuda\/2013\/01\/24\/270\/","title":{"rendered":"A great full day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all! So, aside from Bruce, none of us posted extensively about our fabulous day yesterday. I’ll tackle it.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, we gathered to go into downtown St. George to change a bike and get some toiletries. We got to tour a revamped Deliverance<\/em> (a ship built in Bermuda to carry those stranded in Bermuda, along with supplies, to a needy Jamestown, VA), during which we were greeted by a drunk-seeming animatron who told us all about\u00a0Deliverance<\/em>. He was actually William Strachey,\u00a0Deliverance<\/em>‘s secretary. I would be a drunk too if I had been through everything he had.<\/p>\n

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William Strachey running show<\/p><\/div>\n

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After touring\u00a0Deliverance<\/em> and playing captain, we stopped at the town hall, where a former mayor a) told me to stop giggling, b) asked me why I wasn’t married yet (he asked Sarabeth the same question), and c) informed me that he hoped that I “marry a man who feeds me corn flakes for breakfast every morning”. I guess you get all types around here.<\/p>\n

After that we stopped by St. Peter’s church, as Bruce wrote about, and then went to see the area “near where the heart of Admiral Sir George Somers” is buried.<\/p>\n

We zipped back to BIOS, ate a splendid lunch, and set out again for Devonshire Bay. Our first time riding the Causeway (a bridge running from one island to another– very open to the elements) was a bit of a jolt since I hadn’t been around wind that fierce yet. We have since ridden it 6 times without a problem, but it is still a little stressful every time we cross it… and such a rush every time we make it safely over!<\/p>\n

SO- made it to Devonshire Bay, tried to tame a stray cat… and failed… saw some AWESOME West Indian Top Shell fossils, and then made our way to John Smith’s Bay for some spectacular snorkeling!<\/p>\n

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Big ol West Indian top shell, ~125,000 years old<\/p><\/div>\n

Fish\/other things we saw while snorkeling: parrotfish (I love them), damselfish, a golden spotted eel, tons of brain coral,\u00a0sergeant\u00a0majors, french grunts, a trumpetfish… can’t remember more specific names, but the list goes on!<\/p>\n

We finished up snorkeling, came back to BIOS, ate a great dinner, and went out for an evening plankton tow! We started with a talk at 7 by a technician named Andrew Collins. He gave us the low down on plankton: size ranges, what all the term encompasses, organisms we might see in the tow, etc. During the talk, Winky the BIOS cat gave us a special appearance! She was trying to steal the show.<\/p>\n

After the talk, we went out on the boat for the tow. We didn’t see any bioluminescence ( \ud83d\ude41 ), but we did see TONS of cool arthropods, radiolarians, and acantharia. I do wish I could have seen a foram or two, but you can’t win ’em all.<\/p>\n

After a fantastic– and long– day, we made our ways to bed, tired and happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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