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The first Pallet Ball revels it's surface textures with the magic stroke of a garden hose and water.
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The little ones are so cute.
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The team decided to keep building more Reef Balls, even though the goal was only to do enough for training. We ended up with 43 just in the first week.
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The team learned to check their work because Larry was always playing tricks on folks. Here he removed a plate to see if someone would notice before the concrete came. Nina caught him in the act.
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Demolding a reef ball is just like hatching a dinosaur egg...noi one knew what to expect but everyone could not wait for that moment.
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Volunteers began to fight for the chance to rinse off the surface after demolding because the cool water was fun to play in.
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Everyone pitched in for even the hard work of mixing the concrete. Unexpectedly, everyone learned lots more about concrete than they ever expected.
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All week long, the press kept stoppng by to check our progress. Mareen was quick to answer questions and make sure that all the people and companies that helped out got some credit.
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Although we only deployed one Ultra Ball, it was a source of pride that anything is possible.
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Learning the art of placing toy balls in the reef balls to produce the sizes and distribution of holes desired for the fish was fun too.
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The concrete mixer created the music for the site, when it was clanking, people were always busy.
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Using Reef Balls as chairs, the core group delighted in it's achievements.
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Deployment day was the most exciting. In one day, we put in all the Reef Balls in front of a crowd of Saturday beach goers.
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The day before, we rolled the Reef Balls down the beach by hand, it was nice today to have a donated truck to move them in place for us.
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The Reef Ball staff only brought 14 t-shirts, and they were given to the best of the best volunteers...they were worn proudly. Next time, we'll have to bring more because every one of the volunteers was really the best.
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The beach scene was really strange for about 2 hours.
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Getting staged for floating depoyments was fun. The group worked like a NASA team...everything went according to plan. Todd Barber of Reef Ball said he had never seen a deployment team work so smoothly together.
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After the equipment left, we finished the job by hand.
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Finally, the Reef Ball staff left the wonderful island dreaming about how many more Reef Ball the Curacao volunteers will build in the years to come and how much reef will be restored.
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