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A sand dollar is actually a kind of burrowing sea urchin. You really should Google it and watch a video of one digging underneath the sand. That's a bummer that your sand dollar broke carcar80. It was cool because when we found ours the tide was just coming in so there were all these tidal pools and about an hour later there were all kinds of sea animals that had been washed up. Jellyfish,Anemone's ,shrimp (at least I think that's what that was) and crabs. We got to freaked out to continue wading so we came back up. My mom found a whole blue conch shell and my dad found a live clam and a live conch shell. I found a little pink and white whole conch shell as well. AND I think my dad found a swordfish's sword! A lot of treasures!
I say a few month's ago but it was actually around a year ago with the whole gator story, for my seventeenth birthday my mom took me to a state park called Woods Bay that is part of the Ace Basin down here, black water swamp basically that I had been really wanting to go to. We got there and we were the only people in the whole park. No rangers or anything! Even stranger you would think that there would be an abundance of birds but we didn't hear a single one! So we went down the boardwalk and looked in the water and didn't see anything and then we went down the forest trail (witch by the way was barely marked out to begin with and at one point we lost it!) So we were walking and it really was a pretty park ( if you like swamps that is!) and at one point we heard a small gator grunt. Didn't see it though. So not to scary and we kept on walking and walking and then , well, we lost the trail. It just wasn't marked out any more and that same moment his bird, the only bird we saw totally swooped at my mom just hollering away and flew off continueing to holler. Should have taken that as a warning cause then we hear this VERY loud and VERY close sounding reptilian growl, we stop and look at each other like "DID you hear that" and I am trying very hard not to look totally freaked out! But then we hear it again, and again from behind us, and again from another part of the woods and then again from right next to us! Must have been four or five of them. So trail being lost and being growled at we pretty much decided to wing it and guess where the trail was, well we were right and sighed a sigh of releif when we came out of the woods. We laughed and relished in our survival and you would think the adventure stops there.....nope! The mighty moron warrior/adventurer I am decided that since the alligators were actually out now we had a better chance of seeing and I wanted to go back to the boardwalk over the water...without railing and not even a foot above the water. Why not....it was my birthday after all. So my mother and I went back to the boardwalk and sat on the edge and waited. And waited. I threw sticks and things in the water (stupid idea!!!) trying to get there attention. So my mom says that she thinks she can see an eye in the water, I thought I saw what she saw and it did not look like one to me. Turns out I was seeing something different cause when I went over to her there it was....a big shiny gator eye just below the surface of the water. Swimming back and forth and back and forth in front of us. Did we leave? Nope! We sat there and watched...why not it just seemed curious plus as I told my mom, croc's are the dangerous ones! So at one point it completely disapeared and we thought it was gone when all of a sudden we see the eyes again. flying full speed through the water towards us,up we jumped and as soon as we stood up full height the gator turned back and swam away. THEN we left. That was an awesome birthday!
I say a few month's ago but it was actually around a year ago with the whole gator story, for my seventeenth birthday my mom took me to a state park called Woods Bay that is part of the Ace Basin down here, black water swamp basically that I had been really wanting to go to. We got there and we were the only people in the whole park. No rangers or anything! Even stranger you would think that there would be an abundance of birds but we didn't hear a single one! So we went down the boardwalk and looked in the water and didn't see anything and then we went down the forest trail (witch by the way was barely marked out to begin with and at one point we lost it!) So we were walking and it really was a pretty park ( if you like swamps that is!) and at one point we heard a small gator grunt. Didn't see it though. So not to scary and we kept on walking and walking and then , well, we lost the trail. It just wasn't marked out any more and that same moment his bird, the only bird we saw totally swooped at my mom just hollering away and flew off continueing to holler. Should have taken that as a warning cause then we hear this VERY loud and VERY close sounding reptilian growl, we stop and look at each other like "DID you hear that" and I am trying very hard not to look totally freaked out! But then we hear it again, and again from behind us, and again from another part of the woods and then again from right next to us! Must have been four or five of them. So trail being lost and being growled at we pretty much decided to wing it and guess where the trail was, well we were right and sighed a sigh of releif when we came out of the woods. We laughed and relished in our survival and you would think the adventure stops there.....nope! The mighty moron warrior/adventurer I am decided that since the alligators were actually out now we had a better chance of seeing and I wanted to go back to the boardwalk over the water...without railing and not even a foot above the water. Why not....it was my birthday after all. So my mother and I went back to the boardwalk and sat on the edge and waited. And waited. I threw sticks and things in the water (stupid idea!!!) trying to get there attention. So my mom says that she thinks she can see an eye in the water, I thought I saw what she saw and it did not look like one to me. Turns out I was seeing something different cause when I went over to her there it was....a big shiny gator eye just below the surface of the water. Swimming back and forth and back and forth in front of us. Did we leave? Nope! We sat there and watched...why not it just seemed curious plus as I told my mom, croc's are the dangerous ones! So at one point it completely disapeared and we thought it was gone when all of a sudden we see the eyes again. flying full speed through the water towards us,up we jumped and as soon as we stood up full height the gator turned back and swam away. THEN we left. That was an awesome birthday!
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