Reef Destruction

I spent several summers sailing in the Bahamas as kid with my father. Living on the boat we swam, snorkeled and scubaed constantly. The coral reefs were so beautiful, a rainbow of colors surpassed only by the magnitude and variety of colors and patterns on the fish and sea animals. I returned to the Grand Bahama Island area 2 decades later for snorkeling only to find bleached out white dead coral, a few species struggling and not many varieties of fish or animals. While spots of color and unusual forms still caught your eye it was nothing like before. The sorrow of such a rapid destruction of habitat was shocking. I am not able to share the same magical worlds undersea I experienced as a child with my father.