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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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