Down Unda: Palm Islands, Orpheus Island-Field Trip

For my ecology and evolution of reef corals class we took a three day field trip to the Palm Islands to collect data for an independent project. Each group of two was assigned a specific coral that we had to observe in the ocean and collect a bunch of data on. Of course the species Kaitlyn and I were assigned was in deep water and too gigantic to even measure, but we managed somehow. So the adventure began by waking up at 4am after about 23 minutes of sleep to take a two hour bus to stand in the rain to mope onto a barge that took two more freakin hours to make it to the islands...spectacular. Once we were finally on the island we started by snorkeling in a downpour four about two more hours, also pretty freakin spectacular. That day wasn't too enjoyable. The next day we were in the ocean for about four more hours, after the day started out with me forgetting my fins..not too smart on my part. It was actually a much nicer day, we had better visibility and just a better day looking for coral overall.