Had a pretty good night's sleep last night. The kids were a little wound up and had a camp fire because it was their last night. They quieted down at 10 and we dropped right off. I woke up about 12:30 - heard things falling on the tin roof. Found out this morning that the small things I was hearing were leaves and the bigger things were hermit crabs that fall out of the trees. The breakfast bell went off at 6:45 for the kids and ours went off at 7. Breakfast was french toast, sausages, fruit, yogurt, cold or hot cereal. I can see I will have to be selective. Today we have a day off and we will acclimate ourselves to the camp. I will get back on later to let you know how our day went.
Everyone was busy doing something so instead of sitting around we pitched in to help. Dave helped some of the guys and Zoe build a new garden - it was completely taken over by Mother-in-law's tongue and it was quite a job to dig it all up, put in new soil, etc. They came close to finishing - should be done tomorrow. I swept out two of the cabins that will be used next and did two loads of sheets and towels so that we can be ready for new campers. I think that a school from St. John is coming next and then a group of National Park researchers. On Saturday we have a group from the Sierra Club. I have been trying to reach the car rental company, but have been unsuccessful so far. Our cell phone does not work out here so am using the office phone since this is a local call.
After lunch, we went down to the beach to snorkel. We had a lovely swim - saw 7 squid (three of them quite large), coronet fish, parrot fish, wrasse, lots of sponges, sea cucumbers and coral. Dave spotted a sting ray - it was buried in the sand and only had his tail sticking out! We dried off on the beach which was very crowded today. Someone said it was windy and large waves on the North shore so everyone came to the south shore to swim. We walked back to camp to shower. One of the guys was filling his bird feeder with sugar water and masses of banana quit (small colorful birds) showed up. I took a few pictures and will try to download tomorrow and put them on the blog. I finally got through to the car rental company and they are coming out here tomorrow to trade a car for the truck. Jim is making dinner tonight - barbecue chicken sandwiches, potato wedges and salad. We are starting to sort out the couples and who belongs to whom. It was another glorious day! We officially start work tomorrow so will find out what our job will be.
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