New friends at Weech's Dock
Happy Sailing!
Found the local milk goats!
Classroom entrance
Elementary school K-6th grade.
Girls were super excited to see their classroom for the morning and meet the children.
They both were very polite and the island kids were full of giggles and played tag on the playground. Both girls school work came back with 100% marks and stickers. Emma was sent to the principals office to show off her work. She was very pleased!
Typical street scene....
Wonderful Antoinette from the Bimini tourism office. She organized a gulf cart tour of North
Bimini and the children to go to school the next day. She was full of surprises for us from giving us complementary conk salad to organizing conk pizza for us that night.
Maddie catching the hang of snorkeling! Once she saw all the colorful fish there was no turning back.
Local knowledge from new friend Tom, on how to clean a conk.
Searching for the elusive conk for dinner! When Maddie looked up she said, "Jack-pot!" Empty conk shells! You'd think she found her little bit o'Heavon!
In the end we found 2 conk to cook up for our first conk salad dinner.
I must say it was delicious, however Mama had a hard time chewing it down after seeing the "harvesting" process and the snails eyes wobbling around on long tentacle like posts as it was being pulled out of its shell!
The Bimini Boa, indiginous to Bimini Islands only.
The shark lab work here has been instrumental in preserving the numbers of Lemon Sharks. The North and South Bimini Islands habitat are nursing grounds for these sharks.
One year old lemon shark. In adulthood they can be as large as 8 ft long.
Life span 0-60 years old and they start having young at age 12. They have live births and can have up to 12 young at one time.
Ed walked us out to the shark pens to get a closer view
Lemon Shark Lab
South Bimini
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