Saturday, May 3, 2008

Lynyard Cay, Abacos

Photo #1: The beach!
Photo #2: For want of a better term, this was a nest of hermit crabs - there were probably 50 of them in a pile. We noticed them because they were scrabbling around, leaving the small depression where we found them and headed off somewhere else. They were all sizes. This is one of the big ones. The little ones were about the size of the tip of my little finger.
Photo #3: Another section of beach - you can just see the site of a campfire on the right where people have come ashore for good times. This is where I hopped off the boat and swam toward the beach.


Photo #4: The islands are covered with thick scrubby brush. You walk from one side to the other on the trails other people have made. There was a lot of trash on the ocean side of Lynyard Cay, mostly plastic rubbish.


Photo #5: In the background you can see smoke from some of the wild fires. It's very, very dry here right now and the locals are waiting for the summer rains to soothe the land.







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