I just completed my first week out at the Dry Tortugas. Prior to leaving, Lauren suggested that I might make a blog about it. So here it is, Laurens Dry Tortugas blog by someone other than Lauren.
Confused yet?
Good.
So am I.

This being the first post and my first blog I will try everything out since I don't know what any of it does and Google has mastered the fine art of making the simple complex.
This should be interesting.
Obviously the internet would be a pile of useless crap without pictures, so that's where I'm starting, pictures:

 Stalactites made of mortar and brick stuff

Stalagmites made of the same stuff.

That's not the first thing that springs to mind when people think of this place, but its the first thing that I found while looking in my pile of pictures.

Here's some more:

I get to live here so taking pictures at night is a lot of fun. Falling in holes is also possible.

More night stuff.

The stairs are a lot of fun.

I brought four cameras and strangely the best one is my phone.

Over time and as the weather stops being a rotten bastard I will start doing underwater pictures which has always been my main interest. I started working as soon as I arrived and had no time to jump in the water and by the time I had the hang of my schedule we had a vigorous cold front move in with high winds, nice cool temperatures and the visibility went right down the tubes.

These are done using an Intova SP1 camera, its got a wide angle lens and while its a little blurry its also waterproof.

The camera does video but all the video I took with it is missing.

I'm a bit perplexed as to what happened to it, at least one bit of video was good.

I go back sometime around next Sunday or Monday so there will be a pile of new pictures and maybe some of them will be from under the surface, pictures of
I have found a few interesting holes in the fort that are full of water, I am going to lower a camera into them and see whats down there.
In the mean time:
HI LAUREN!!!