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Published: September 7th 2017
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Harvesting Ccoonuts in the yard
Cheo is the caretaker for Sand Dollar Cove and is getting coconuts for us to have some coconut water, it took 3 coconuts to fill a gallon pitcher. Geo: 9.81165, -85.3099
Well, it was a traditional day at the beach, pure laziness! Stayed in bed till 9 ish... Jim and I had a nice breakfast of eggs and bacon out on the patio. Jim and some of the others went for a walk on the beach and saw the tide pools, I read a book and then saw a Cayman in the water in front of the patio, we have to walk around it to get to the beach. Photos to follow! Barb and Paul saw an interesting ant siting that I'll let her tell you about.
Basically today was a day of sitting on the patio, reading, played in the water for a little bit, had a massage therapist come to the house and give me a "traditional Thai massage" the ultimate luxury on vacation!!, more reading, now blogging at 5:59 pm while Jim, Dan, and Barb are making fish tacos out of the fish they caught yesterday. I'll have a repeat probably of the salad I had for lunch today. So that about sums it up, I'll download the photos and let Barb and anyone else who wants to contribute do so.
Tomorrow we may be eating pizza in
a tree house, update to follow!
Pure Vida,
Wendy
So this is Paul and Barb, and we get to tell the ant story. So we were outside first thing, seeing and listening some cool birds. I, Barb, followed some great, loud squawking sounds to a nearby tree to see a beautiful parrot, green, and got to watch him with the binoculars for a minute - so cool! Anyway, we saw some ants on the sidewalk behind the house, then some more, then we realized that there were hundreds, no thousands, of ants in very organized lines, marching from a stump across the yard, to our house, where some of them peeled off to go along the back deck wall, others went up the side of the opposite side of the house, and most were making their way past the house to a fruit tree on the other side of the house. A few, and we were so thankful it was only a few, took a detour into our bathroom shower (through a window), in search of water. Paul found out that these ants (about a quarter of an inch long), were sturdy, and hard to kill, but he was a warrior
and got the ones who went out of their world (outside), and into ours (inside). We intentionally did not stand too close to their columns outside, but standing in the grass, Dan, Paul and I did get bit by them, and it stung! Bad ants! As the the temperature rose, the ants formed into one larger line, several ants wide, and marched back to the stump. They moved at a quick pace, and it took them about an hour. It's hard to guess, but I'm thinking there had to be a million of them. And now we're curious to see if this is a daily ritual for them. I guess we'll see in the morning!
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