Black Rhombus

As you probably already know, I just got back from a work trip to
Belize.  It's my second 'business' trip to the Smithsonian Field
Station which is on a teeny tiny island called Carrie Bow Cay. 
It's an amazing place, and just the coolest place to go and do
work.  The cook, Martha, is also just fabulous - she feeds us very
very well.   The weather didn't really cooperate very well,
though.  Apparently November and December are not the best months
to go as they tend to have stormy weather often.  Yup.  Had
that.  We 'live' on Carrie Bow Cay, but we do our data collection
at a nearby island which is actually 2 cays so it's called "Twin
Cays", which is a boat ride away.  Almost every day was overcast, windy and rainy which made
for difficult conditions to try to get boats off the island (rough) and
even worse conditions to try to collect data via underwater video and
still photos.  Visability was very bad because of particulate
matter in the water and b/c fresh water rain runoff from the mangroves
floats on top of the salt water which creates a "fresh water lens"
which basically screws up your visability.  So, we didn't get
everything done that we were hoping to do, but we got some things
accomplished.  On an afternoon when it wasn't raining we shot some
video and on the stormy days when we couldn't leave the island we
edited the video.  Here it is, it's not great but you get an idea
of what the island is like.  You can also see photos in the Gallery by clicking HERE .

-Becca