On Aitutaki, Sunday is a day of rest for everyone. Except for 2 places All of the stores are closed and people spend the day with their families after morning religious ceremonies. This morning some of the group accompanied the professors to the local church and the rest of the group stayed to enter our […]
Fungia is a free moving coral, known commonly as the ‘Mushroom coral’ due to its shape. Sometimes they are found to be purplish but mostly brown. This is just one of the many species we were able to see first hand and learn about on Thursdays snorkel survey. Amazing!
Now that we are home let me give you a full account of what happened for the last few days. The day after (08/07/15) we had our little adventure we (the lagoon team) we lost another team member Julie because when she woke up the next day one of her eyes was super puffy and […]
On Thursday we left with the start of the sun peaking across the water to do a full day of surveying in the lagoon surrounding the main part of Aitutaki. We left the dock and zipped across the clear turquoise water to see the amazing coral reefs in the lagoon. As the boat stopped we […]
After dinner we headed to a spot near the airport with great visibility for a night time snorkel. I have never done that before and it was amazing!
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