Thursday in the Bahamas

It's been a long week, but such a great experience. So many memories and experiences each day; we found a stray dog that hadn't been fed in days that we took along with us for a few hours on Tuesday, although it was extremely windy so we didn't get to do as much in the water as we would have liked. 

On the way back to the research center, out truck ran out of gas and luckily we had some kind locals help us out and call for help to get us up and running and back in time for dinner. On Wednesday, we had to drop Dr. Lewis and Amber off at the medical clinic to get illnesses checked, as the rest of us went to see a fossilized reef in Cockburn town. This was, up to this point, my favorite part of the trip. There were so many fossils that one could spend an entire day there looking, and still not see all of them. That afternoon, we went to a blue hole and a cave, saw bats in the cave, and finished the day off with some body surfing in French Bay at the southern portion of the island. Today, we went on "the march of death" behind the research center and saw a few saline lakes and some fossilized rocks and ended up at the rain catchment facility that captures our drinking water. This afternoon we went to lighthouse cave and then finished the day at the bay directly across from the research center in which we saw lots of fish and crabs and a few coral formations.

It's been a great trip so far, and with a few days left I am starting to miss home, but so thankful that I got the chance to step away from the normal day to day routine in Little Rock and see this beautiful place. I hope to cherish the memories made and experiences had for a long time.

See you soon LR,

JT Poole