After a three plane adventure...two jets and a prop plane, I arrived in San Salvador. The weather is warm and balmy, and the water is a bit churned up from the tropical storm that came through recently.
The first day (SATURDAY) I discovered that Bahamas Air travels on Bahama's time; a two hour delay at the airport kept us from snorkling the first day, so we did a road tour of the island instead. Small island; took us a little more than an hour to go around the whole thing.
We actually stopped at the spot where Columbus landed on San Salvador, and did some snack shopping in one of the three tiny grocery stores on the island.
Saturday night was a general introduction to the study itself. John Rollino who is conducting the study gave us a history of the coral bleaching that has been going on here for the last several years. He also pointed out some really nifty ways they are going to be trying to solve this problem by actually grafting new corals onto the skeletons of the dead coral...more about this
later.
Yesterday morning we went snorkeling for the first time...the water was a bit rough and murky, but we were actually able to see many of the corals we are going to be studying. Everyone else except Mrs Stein, myself, and John R. had wet suits to wear against the 'cold' water. The three of us all being NJ people toughed it out...the water here is warmer than the Jersey Shore.
The people here are great....hope to get some photos on today...we have had major computer problems...talk to you soon...Mrs. H.
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