Puerto Rico trip

[VLDesign]

Becareful swimming in fresh water there. There is and can be schistosomiasis in there and you will become very ill.

We have a condo in Luquillo and love staying there. If you get a chance eat at the Brass Cactus in Luquillo. Great food.

 

[qtrhorse89]

Ah thanks I'll do that. And yes we were warned about the schistosomiasis. We are very careful, but the swimming is still lots of fun.

 

[Red Devil]

great photos.. please update as you go... have a great time...i know you will!

 

[krichardson]

Looks like a nice area.I will be heading down to PR Monday morning.

 

[cichlid fiend]

Sweet!

 

[greenterra]

It looks like a great place for work.

 

[AFRO-thunder]

Hmmmmm nice. Remembers me of my field work in French Guyana. Do you also do some electro-fishing for your study? We have done that during one or two field courses and it was lots of fun!

 

[GetInMahBellay]

Wow sounds like you have an awesome internship! what did you study in college? marine bio? marine science?

 

[south coast nelly]

looks amazing mate,lucky you..i should be in colombia by end of september..yaaay..

also word of warning, watch out for the "Vandellia cirrhosa" more feared than piranha or electric eels

 

[qtrhorse89]

Hmmmmm nice. Remembers me of my field work in French Guyana. Do you also do some electro-fishing for your study? We have done that during one or two field courses and it was lots of fun!

Yes we will be doing some electro-fishing which is what I mainly did during this past summer. This summer we are more focused on looking at microhabitat use via snorkeling.

I'm majoring in Zoology with a concentration in ichthyology. I'm mostly interested in freshwater fish. There is actually no where near the amount of research in freshwater fish that there is in saltwater fish. I'll graduate next spring and then its off to grad school for more of the same thing.