Tag: Cuba
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Cuba journal: Day 2 – by Land and by Sea
[Number 2 in a continuing series] Day 2: Saturday 28 May Up at 0400 again, this time to meet the bus for the long, slow drive across Cuba to our port. Traveling east by bus in the misty humid sunrise across the flat agrarian landscape of Cuba. Endless fields, most apparently fallow, fencerows of sticks…
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Cuba journal: Day 1 – arrival in Havana
Prologue [A few weeks ago, four of us set out for the pristine reefs of Cuba on a marine biological expedition. Following is the first in a series of daily journal entries from the trip.] Our party consisted of John Bruno and Abel Valdivia of UNC Chapel Hill, myself from VIMS, and James Kealey of…
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Cuba journal: Top predators on the reef
Happy World Oceans Day everyone! Wow, it’s hard to compete with Helen’s whale shark story for a close encounter with an awesome sea creature! Since it’s still fresh in my mind, I’ll go with an experience from our recent trip to Cuba. At the risk of giving you a case of elasmobranch overload, this features…
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Cuba journal: Goliath
I’ve been around the block a few times, and dove on quite a few reefs over the years. On most reefs in the Caribbean — make that the West Atlantic generally — you’d be hard pressed to see a fish big enough to feed 2 or 3 people. But our last week spent in the…