June 2000 St. Augustine Florida Project
Sept 1999: The Secretary of the State of Florida will receive an plaque from Reef Ball Foundation today honoring the top grant receipant school St. Augustine High School for the Reef Ball program and Archeological project. The award will be presented at the St. Augustine Lighthouse that is celebrating there 125th anniversary. ST. JOHNS 6/30/2001 HIGH SCHOOL REEF MODULES CONCRETE REEFBALLS (8) 3003.593 8106.338 PALLET REEF BALLS-2,000 POUNDS 60 4 DGPS
From Phil Stewman (High School Teacher) from St. Augustine. We have a barge set for a June deployment and plan on building another 300 reef balls this year with my students to bring to a total of 450 balls on our site. We now have 26 balls on site and they are doing wonderful. We have documented
the beginnings of many sets of hard coral (Oculina) which is not suppose to happen this far north. I was also surprised to see how many oysters we have at this point. Groupers, Snappers, Triggers, Turtles, and a Nurse shark that has been living in our broken reef ball that we named shark ball because of the way it looked. He has been there for two years, he leaves but always
returns to the same ball.
The Joe Halusky Reef Ball Reef was named after Joe Hulusky who spent many years in the county Sea Grant Program
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