A special Hail and Farewell to the Kohlers, who are now head back home to the great state of Georgia. Thank you for sharing your vacation with us and taking the time to come down and support our beaches. We hope you take home great memories and experiences. Stay in touch and feel free to join up with us again. The turtle safe life is always on.
Since no one has emailed or phoned in any more questions/concerns/ or great stories in the past couple of days, I'll share mine.
After checking the 12 +1 WO yesterday, and sneaking a peek at some of you in action :) (great job everybody!), I wandered out to the pier. I had a lovely conversation with a family from Belgium. It was during this conversation that we saw a rather large, large, shark only 200 yards off the beach, swimming FROM the beach. (That always gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling.) We saw large rays, a couple of Tarpon, a pod of frolicking dolphins, and they were amazed at the strings of bait fish coming in and the size of the mackerel. I spoke with over 30 people on my short walk out and back, fixed one fishing reel, and removed the hook from the back of a pair of shorts from a wayward cast. It seemed that all conversations were pleasantly devoid of the whole oil topic. I must say, I found it a refreshing change. A smaller 4 foot shark just off the piling, almost dead center of the photo.
June Grass continues to plague the surf zone to about 100-200 yards out. Yesterday it was clumping, so some beach areas were actually clear of the Neptunian snot.
Keep up the great work everyone. Please remember to stop by the firehouse and sign up for future shifts. The book is starting to look a little blank. Also, tell your friends and neighbors about the program. Chris plans to have another training session when she gets back into town. So tune in here for that date.
Dolphins enjoying an Atlantic Croaker afternoon snack. (do not enlarge to fill screen, not a high enough resolution to see it well)
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