The day began with a 9:00 am kayaking trip at a local resort only about 5 minutes from BIOS by bus. There, our guide brought us through the harbor and out the the shore line where we were exposed to the beautiful coastline of Bermuda. At one point on the tour we stopped at a spot occupied by green sea turtles that weaved their way through the sea grass floor. Being as skittish as they are to humans, we were only able to view the turtles while in the kayaks as the swam as blobs beneath us. However, we were lucky to be able to seek a peak of them when the came to the surface for air. Moving on with the tour we went back the way we came and over to Walsingham where we then took a break for a swim as well as got some snorkeling in where students saw creatures like the squirrelfish as well as sea anemnomies and creole wrasse. We swam within the rock formations and even got a closer look at the roots of mangrove trees from beneath the water. After coming back for a delightful fish and chips lunch some students stayed at BIOS due to cuts and ailments and were not up to the trek to turtle bay. Others had to take a bus to St. Davids and transferred onto a second bus that took us to turtle bay on Coopers Island where there was a lot of snorkeling of large angelfish, smooth trunk fish, butterfly fish as well as new baby stergeant fish and creole wrasse. We were suprised to find a mamoth sea earchin. After drying off and tanning in the strong Bermudan sun we got a bus back to St. Georges and had jerk chicken and fish soup dinner with warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream sundae for dessert. To keep us busy until nightfall were we would have a bonfire with smores everyone played cards and fun active acticiteys. On our way to whalebone bay to have the bonfire we checked out a cool pond that is supposed to have fireworks of glow worms letting off reproductive fosflorecence and it is considered a holiday for Bermudians and it happens every year three days after the full moon and 58 minutes after sunset. Unfortunetly thus spesific time is past us going home. See all you parents soon!
Author of the day
Emma Stone
Kirsten Hohman
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