We almost thought we had found another "treasure"...but it turned out to be some kind of rusted iron shaft inside of a wooden shaft inside iron collars. I tossed it aside as it had no value or use on our boat. Anybody have a guess as to what it might be? I thought it may be part of a wheel or turnstock from an old ship.
There were so many shells and chunks of finger coral on the beach, you would have to dig to look for sand. The size of the different variety of shells was also astounding...here are 3 different sea urchin shells; all were within about 3 inches of each other on the beach. Evidently, some varieties are edible. My cousins had a business in the Puget Sound area harvesting them for restaurants...until the fishing regulations/government run them out of business.
I believe this fish is a tropical gar or possibly a trumpetfish. Either way, it was about 2' long. It and it's other buddies were swimming along Karen and I as were snorkling behind our boat.
This is one of the 6 stingrays we saw. It was about 3' across and hovered below us for quite awhile. They appear to like sandy and grassy areas. I don't think we have seen any up in the coral or within the close shallows of the shoreline. The small fish stayed right above it, regardless of what the stingray was doing. I believe the fish do that in case the stingray scares up a smaller fish that the larger one can eat. Or maybe it's like me...just wants to be ornery.
Right up next to the rocky, shallow shoreline areas were schools of fish....billions of them. In this picture, the smaller fish were about 2" and the larger were about 6". The 2 different sized fish schools stayed independant, but ran parallel to each other...almost like freeway traffic.
In the morning, a group of men were planning on fishing with either drop nets or gill nets. I'm not sure what type of fish they were looking for, but they weren't able to do it. Karen and I had come in the night before and dropped the anchor and stern-tied to the shoreline...just like the other 5 boats. Evidently, they felt we were in "their" fishing spot and were a little upset, despite the "thumbs up" gesture from the one fellow. Our unique ability to negotiate a truce with them kept the problem from escalating into a gesture battle. They ended up going somewhere else to fish and we chose to apply the "the largest pirate ship wins" rule.
There were so many shells and chunks of finger coral on the beach, you would have to dig to look for sand. The size of the different variety of shells was also astounding...here are 3 different sea urchin shells; all were within about 3 inches of each other on the beach. Evidently, some varieties are edible. My cousins had a business in the Puget Sound area harvesting them for restaurants...until the fishing regulations/government run them out of business.
I believe this fish is a tropical gar or possibly a trumpetfish. Either way, it was about 2' long. It and it's other buddies were swimming along Karen and I as were snorkling behind our boat.
This is one of the 6 stingrays we saw. It was about 3' across and hovered below us for quite awhile. They appear to like sandy and grassy areas. I don't think we have seen any up in the coral or within the close shallows of the shoreline. The small fish stayed right above it, regardless of what the stingray was doing. I believe the fish do that in case the stingray scares up a smaller fish that the larger one can eat. Or maybe it's like me...just wants to be ornery.
Right up next to the rocky, shallow shoreline areas were schools of fish....billions of them. In this picture, the smaller fish were about 2" and the larger were about 6". The 2 different sized fish schools stayed independant, but ran parallel to each other...almost like freeway traffic.
In the morning, a group of men were planning on fishing with either drop nets or gill nets. I'm not sure what type of fish they were looking for, but they weren't able to do it. Karen and I had come in the night before and dropped the anchor and stern-tied to the shoreline...just like the other 5 boats. Evidently, they felt we were in "their" fishing spot and were a little upset, despite the "thumbs up" gesture from the one fellow. Our unique ability to negotiate a truce with them kept the problem from escalating into a gesture battle. They ended up going somewhere else to fish and we chose to apply the "the largest pirate ship wins" rule.
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