I am going to call today's post "Camp Critters". Emma, the cat, lives at camp and gets fed twice a day by the kitchen crew. She is very friendly and lives the life of Riley! We have tons of soldier crabs here in camp. They adopt different shells as they grow. There is suppose to be one living in a baby food jar and someone said they saw a tiny one last year in a toothpaste cap! There are several deer who wander through camp at all times of the day. There is one family with two babies - very cute. The birds in the photo are banana quits. They love anything sweet and these are attacking Willie and Deb's feeder just after Willie added some sugar to the feeder. We have had donkeys, but didn't have my camera ready. We constantly see mongeese, but they are very elusive and camera shy. Today I was back on the rock garden. I did the rest of the camp laundry during breaks. We had a group of students from Radford University in Virginia come in late last night. They went for a hike this morning and a snorkel this afternoon. They are studying tropical ecology. After lunch we loaded Glenn, Nancy, and Roy in the Jeep and took a drive over to Francis Bay to snorkel. I saw two large tarpon even before we got in the water - they were very close to shore. We had just gotten in and a 5-6 foot manta ray slowly swam by - beautiful! I think the snorkeling near here was better, but we did see a very large parrot fish and a porcupine fish. After our swim, we took a walk down the boardwalk that we had worked on earlier in the week. The boardwalk itself is done, but the railings are not. The pink flamingo is still there - Nancy and Roy had never seen one in the wild and were quite thrilled. Jim and Barb are cooking tonight - marinated chicken - it smells wonderful.
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