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This page contains a log of each days' activities while on St. John. You can click on individual events to read a team member's journal entry from that day. Items will be added throughout our week on St. John.

Tuesday, April 10, 2001

  • Travel
  • Set Up Camp - Free time / Rent Snorkel Equipment
  • Dinner
  • Evening Class 7:00pm
    • Introduction to the Island (Geography and History)
    • Camp Orentation (Water, Milk, Ice, etc.)
    • Expedition Behavior (Expectations and Risk Taking)
    • Keeping a Journal
    • Survival Guide (Sun protection, Hydration, Food sanitation, Blisters and Shoes)
    • Leave No Trace Philosophy
    • Website
    • Experiment Introduction
    • Reading
    • Picture of the Day

Wednesday, April 11, 2001

  • Beginning snorkel class - 3 groups and 3 different places (Big Maho, Little Maho, and Francis Bays)
  • Lunch
  • Break into 3 groups and rotate - 1pm-2:30pm 2:30-4:00pm 4:00-5:30pm
    • Birds with Mrs. Allison - this group meets at the Francis Beach trail
    • Team Building Activities - this group meets at the Upper Pavilion
    • Website with Mr. Hauze - this groups meets in the Lower Pavilion
  • Dinner
  • Evening class
    • Journals
    • Fish Identifications
    • Seeing and Observing
    • Hermit Crab sketches
    • Reading
    • Picture of the Day

Thursday, April 12, 2001

  • Hike to Leinster Bay
  • Identifications on 3 substrate - bring plastic container - notebooks - pencils - sunscreen - snorkel gear - do critter drawings
    • Grass / Sandy Bottom and Mangroves
    • Coral Litter
    • Rocky Shore
  • Lunch
  • Snorkel Leinster Bay
  • Hike back by way of Francis Bay/Salt Pond
  • Dinner
  • Evening class
    • Journals
    • Complete drawings
    • Invertebrate taxonomy
    • Review and Discuss experiment investigations
    • Reading
    • Picture of the Day

Friday, April 13, 2001

  • Snorkel to Mary's Point (Coral Identifications) / Shell & Algea Collection)
  • Lunch
  • Dissolved Oxygen & NPP
  • Initial Experiment Observations
  • Dinner
  • Evening class
    • Journals
    • Discuss Dissolved Oxygen Experiment
    • Algae Identification
    • Discuss Experiment Observations
    • Reading
    • Picture of the Day

Saturday, April 14, 2001

  • Reef Bay Trail
    • Native plants discussion
    • Comparison of flora (Windward vs. Leeward sides of the Island)
    • Petroglyphs
    • Continue to Lamisher Bay
  • Lunch
  • Snorkel at Lamisher
  • Shell Collection
  • Dinner
  • Evening class
  • Possible Night Snorkel

Sunday, April 15, 2001

  • Annenburg Ruins
  • Leinster Bay cleanup
  • Leinster Bay snorkel
  • Lunch
  • Time to make experimental observation
  • Dinner at pavilion
  • Dance at pavilion (no evening meeting)

Monday, April 16, 2001

  • Brown Bay Hike
  • Lunch at Brown Bay
  • Cleanup cabin / pack
  • Dinner
  • Evening Class

Tuesday, April 17, 2001

  • Sign out
  • St. Thomas Shopping
  • Travel

 

 

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