Programs Blog

Monday, 09 March 2026

Anchored off Pointe Michel, Dominica

Let’s do a little thought experiment together. Imagine a cheeseboard, a cow, a lizard, a doghouse and a midnight rat.

Most likely you thought of some distinctly different things than those of us currently on the Cramer; Anyways, this is the challenge to my “Warhummel” Brother, or any other interested reader, to find out about what parts of the daily lives of Cramer I might be referring to.

But oh no, focus in! It is time to turn towards the most important daily updates! I would like to report that the rainbow count has risen to 27 and the new hobbies of the day is counting down from three to predict when the next gust of wind is going to hit us. Other skills that we are currently working on mastering include sweating (lines and otherwise), zipping pdfs (having fun with a typo in one of our forms) and counting the number cats in the ocean.

When we were not perfecting these essential skills we also do science, class and fieldtrips. Today we visited Nature Island Dive, a dive shop where we got to learn about their coral restoration efforts and even got to help out by sawing some corals apart. (I promise that it was intentional fragmentation to help with their a-sexual reproduction). After that we also had some free time ashore before it was time to return to our beloved floating home that is the SSV Corwith Cramer. The evening was then spent in the dearly loved routine of excited waiting for the dinner bell, cheerful post-dinner chatting and the daily reoccurring fights over who gets the honour of doing the dishes.

Now most everyone is asleep (except those who are currently standing watch to make sure everything is well, shout out to you!) and I am also ready to crawl into my bunk with excited anticipation about what the morning wakeup might entail.

Carla Schmidt, B-Watch, Trinity College