{"id":332,"date":"2013-01-26T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/geologyofbermuda\/?p=332"},"modified":"2013-01-27T06:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:49:25","slug":"snorkeling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/geologyofbermuda\/2013\/01\/26\/snorkeling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there!<\/p>\n

So, today was our day off and it was AMAZING. I’m sure others are writing about it though, so I will cover yesterday.<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning we made our way to Hamilton. One bike broke down along the way, so we had the opportunity to once more be amazed with how well Oleander (the company we rent our mopeds from) deals with broken, malfunctioning, etc…. bikes. They really are great.<\/p>\n

ANYWAY! We all made it to Hamilton, had a walk around, and realized that we had to make it back to BIOS for a boat trip to Natural Arches beach and Tuckerstown to snorkel!<\/p>\n

The boat trip was exhilarating. We entered one edge of the Bermuda Triangle (!!!!!!!), made it safely through and into calmer waters (seriously, the waters in the triangle were kind of rough), and reached our snorkel spot. Fish\/other things seen this time include: parrotfish (shocking), trumpetfish, sergeant majors, a big grouper, and a lionfish!! Our snorkel guide had been looking for one, and right after we jumped in the water Matt spotted this guy hanging out on the seafloor. Our guide jumped in with a spear, swam down to the lionfish, and speared him on the first try. It was really impressive but slightly sad because I love lionfish…. certainly not because of their felid name or anything…. (jokes).<\/p>\n

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The speared lionfish.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poor little thing!<\/p><\/div>\n

The ride back was straight up frigid but it was totally worth it. A once-in-a-lifetime event: at one point during said ride, it was raining on one side of the boat and not at all on the other!! Bermuda is so weird.<\/p>\n

After warming ourselves up with showers and hot cocoa, we set out for dinner at the (in)famous Swizzle Inn. (Alice, if you’re reading this, we got you a shirt!) The food was hearty and soul-warming.<\/p>\n

After our first nighttime moped ride ever, we made it back to BIOS, where we had a chance to hang out with some BIOS people at the on-premises bar. We met the port captain of BIOS’s lab vessel, the\u00a0Atlantic Explorer<\/em>.. he’s from Boston! It was a fun evening full of chats with BIOS folks, all of whose stories are really interesting.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic Explorer<\/p><\/div>\n

All in all, I would say it was a pretty successful day. Sure put a smile on my face at bedtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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