St. John Tues. 3/6/12

Another gorgeous day! After helping to clean up the kitchen this morning, I baked lemon bars for tonight's dessert. We are out of confectioner's sugar, but I found a recipe that uses granulated sugar so I am hoping they come out okay. About 9:30, I got back in the rock garden. They guys built a lovely stone wall around it and I worked over that last third that didn't get done yesterday. Dave turned over a stone and found a nice tarantula which Glenn caught on a stick for me to photograph (see above). Glenn caught a skink which is pictured above on the thumb of his glove. We stopped for lunch and then Glenn offered to take Dave and I kayaking. Dave was very uncomfortable as the kayak was narrow and was pressing on his hip bones so he hopped out and walked back to camp. Glenn and I paddled around Cabrit Point (see photo) until we could see Ram's Head. As you can see it was glorious on the water. It was a big rough in the deeper water, but it was still fun. We rode some of the rollers for a while and then paddled some more. We saw a great blue heron and two oyster catchers on the shore. We also saw someone fishing with a hand line near the point. On our way back to the dock, we saw John and Harry on the boat and stopped to say "Hi" and then saw Laura and Pete who were just getting ready to jump off the dock for a snorkel. The college kids went to Hurricane Hole to snorkel this morning. After lunch, they baited have-a-heart traps trying to catch some mongeese and then worked around camp on rock walls, pulling snake plant, and generally cleaning up. They will be hungry for dinner tonight! The final picture for the day is of two Cuban tree frogs who live in the toilet tank in back of cabin 2. There were 3 of them, but one of them used to hide in the bowl and one of the guys got tired of him being there and flushed him! Poor froggy! Oops! I see that I got 2 pix of Cabrit Point and skipped the toilet toads so will try to add it. I got interrupted because the kids caught a mongoose in one of the traps and I stopped the photo upload to take a picture of the mongoose.