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Trip Reports

Welcome to the REEF Trip Forum!

Anyone can browse our forums but you must be a REEF member and logged in to post.  Have you just returned from a REEF Field Survey, an Advanced Assessment Team project , or personal survey trip vacation and would like to share your experience with our members?  This forum allows you to let other REEF members know what was special about your diving destination such as heaps of fish, unique cryptic fish, gre

Mini Beach Clean Up

Thank you for the CINMS boat ride on 06/13/2008

I don't know who reads this forum, but I feel the need to say "thanks" so I'm posting here.

I was invited by REEF to go on a fish-counting day trip to San Miguel, one the islands in the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, CA. What an opportunity! I don't often get to the Channel Islands and I was thrilled to be asked to join a REEF-sponsored event and it was so nice to have the charter paid by a grant. Thank you for the invitation!

Don't overlook the simple

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In October, the REEF Biscayne Bay Park project was held up a whole week because of weather. Rather than adding extra travel, 3 of us stayed in Key Largo and started out snorkling in Florida Bay.  What seemed like second choice became a repeat event. Wow! All three of us added new species to our life lists by exploring two feet deep water! New gobies, dwarf seahorses, several pipefishes, and very new to us, killifishes. Amazing how fast three hours can go when you are finding awesome fish.