After a delicious breakfast of cereal and soy milk, the group
split up to either body surf or build an enormous sandcastle. While body
surfing we got pummeled by waves but it was worth it for the waves we caught.
The sandcastle, more like sand fortress, we built isn’t going
down any time soon. With everyone contributing something, the castle mirrored
the size of all of our tents combined. It was intents! Haha. We garnished our
palace with coconuts and seaweed and watched as the waves grew closer, but no
wave could take down our kingdom.
We waved goodbye to our empire and the beautiful pink sand
beach as we packed up our tents and hammocks. Fun fact the reason the beach was
pink is due to parrotfish poop! Yum. We already miss the feeling of the tempurpedic
sand underneath our feet.
Dragging our gear into the vans, we piled in for a long ride
back to the Island School. We blared music and sang our hearts out to throwback
music. We stopped for lunch at Governor’s Harbor, a beautiful beachfront town
midway back. We could get used to eating all of our meals on a beach. It’s much
better than eating in the snow! Side note – we need cassava chips in Cleveland.
Once back at the Island School, we unpacked and finally got
semi-clean. We spent our free time before dinner walking on the beach and
talking in our dorms. Some of us decided to head over to the rock gym (a gym
but all of your weights are rocks and there is no gym) to keep in shape while
in paradise.
After a great dinner of pork chops and quinoa, we listened to
a presentation about lionfish. We learned about how this invasive species has
effected local and global economies and has started to kill off coral reefs. A
single female lionfish can lay 30,000,000 eggs in their lifetime and reproduces
every 4 days. They’re freaky.
Okay – we’re off to watch a meteor shower, what are you
doing!? With a late bedtime of 10:15 hopefully we’ll catch some shooting stars
tonight.
Sea ya soon!
Ally and Hannah
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