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Guam 2020: Post 18 Camping at Tarague Beach Part 5 - Beach Walk




After lunch we emptied our tent and loaded our car.  The pathfinders worked on striking camp.  When that was accomplished, they could all go swimming.  We decided we wanted to go for another walk down the beautiful beach.  There is not enough opportunity to be in a place like this.  My photos only begin to tell what we saw on our walk.  The color of the water surpassed all I had seen so far on any of our trips to Tarague beach.  My camera caught the colors very well.



Yesterday while we were walking on the beach on of the boys had found the exoskeleton of a lobster and given it to a girl, who then gave it to me.  It was like it was painted with watercolor greens and purples and blues.  I also found two legs that seemed to go with it. We don't know what species it is yet, but it is very beautiful and I would like to get an ID of it.


Limestone formations.  Waves rushing in.  Video clip.

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Somebody's picnic blanket.









We were looking for baby sharks in the pools because Andrew had seen some there on Friday.  Instead we found the exoskeleton of a crab.



I found a pile of hermit crabs surrounding one empty shell that was larger.  I wondered if someone put them all there.  I have heard stories of people watching a whole group of them making a real estate trade all at once.  The biggest one moves into the bigger shell, which opens up his shell for the next biggest hermit crab and one by one everyone gets a better deal.  What would our world be like if humans helped each other out this way?  I wonder who is going to get that big black and white shell?  The one on the right or the one on the left?



Amy told me she had seen a pink colored shell on the beach during her early morning walk, larger than the average shell on the beach, and something she had never seen before.  She was tempted to walk on past, but remembered me and that I would stop and look at it and try to figure out what it was.  She showed me a photo, and I didn't know what it was either.



So I was watching for it as I walked on the beach.  Thankfully Rob was with me, and he knew exactly what it was.  It is a cuttle bone from inside a Cuttlefish.  The color of this one was pale pink.  I am guessing it was about 8 inches long. Wikipedia says it is a chambered gas filled bone, that the Cuttlefish uses for buoyancy.  You might have seen one before inside a Parakeet cage, as it is a good source of calcium for small animals.  As an artist I was interested to learn that the genus name of the Cuttlefish is Sepia.  The Greeks and Romans collected the brown colored liquid that a Cuttlefish shoots out of their siphon when alarmed, and used it for ink.  Sepia now refers to a rich brown color in the art world.




I'm so thankful for my adventure partner, Rob, and that he is patient with all the time I take to look at things and learn from nature.  It is such a blessing to see things in Guam together.  I really enjoyed this trip to the beach.  I hope you did too.

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