1 May 2019

I woke up to the rumbling of the engine on our boat and I felt comforted by the rocking of the waves as I lay in my bed. After our boat ride to our anchor site beside the abandoned shore of Prickly Pear and a quick breakfast, Cat, Mike (Cat's dad), and I jumped off the boat and headed for a swim. We explored the glassy rubble on the beach and came upon a baby goat. It was so adorable and made the cutest little goat noise. We were also able to find about 50 hermit crabs, a little bit smaller than my fist, hiding in a bush at the base of an indigenous tree on the beach. I have never seen hermit crabs this large, but Mike told me that they were bigger than the ones were normally saw in the water for mother protected from predators, like birds. When walking around the beach, we saw a bee digging a hole in the sand. It made me realize that insects are a lot more than animals than I thought they were instead of just multi-legged crawly things. After our swim Cat and I hunkered down for five hours of online learning while we were hiding from the mid-day sun so I wouldn't get sunburned. After that I relaxed on an evening paddle board adventure once the wind died down and then sat down for dinner.
Hours Today- 5 hours
Hour Total- 10 hours
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