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OOPS....Just One More Thing!

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Here is a blog entry that was mysteriously hiding away until today!  In May 2015, just after Consolidation, a group of us made our way to Almond Beach...one of 11 in what is known as Shell Beach.  It was quite a memorable trip with LONG speedboat ride that partly took place in the Atlantic Ocean.  The beach is very near Venezuela in Region One of Guyana.  Here are some pictures. The travel group is ready for an adventure!  Here we are refueling!  This is an endangered Leatherback burying about 100 eggs on the beach about 9PM.  This is rather late in the season and I was so pleased to see the "exhibition".  She worked quickly to bury them then marched back out to the ocean.  Not very "maternal" by human standards, but MOTHER NATURE KNOWS BEST! There were beautiful fist sized blue butterflies and red birds in flight at Shell Beach.. unfortunately, no photos. CLOSER TO HOME ~ This is a Peace Corps group of volunteers and trainees.  We came to