Aloha! Today we did a lot of scootering…all the way to the far tip of the island into the Royal Naval Dockyards region. It was fairly deserted and ghost town-ish. Also drove past a prison. Today was also more blustery than its been on previous days. Hmm.
What we really did today though was go to three beaches and investigate the coarser grained sand particles and other things too. I collected what I thought was cool and put it in a bag. We checked out cup reefs at one of the national parks and I saw a lot of chitin(s). They are strange and look like they belong in the dinosaur days.
We actually looked at quite a lot today. Sarabeth found a nifty piece of a man o’ war jellyfish. There were a couple of crab exoskeletons that were discarded on the rocks. I like their patterns.
We also found this:
which is a cowfish that washed up near a fossilized cup reef. This ancient reef even had ancient shells still embedded in it !! You don’t see one of these everyday.
The drive back from the far side of the island was pretty manic due to rain and wind. The causeway was an especially wild ride but we all made to the warm sanctuary of BIOS.