Rongerik Atoll
29 December 2011 | Marshall Islands
All sorts of things wash ashore.
Another day we walked on an island over which, lots of birds circled. For some reason the island was noticeably lacking in coconut palms but thick with short trees and scrub. It was nesting season and there were lots of baby boobies and some small frigate birds squawking at us when we got too close. We got lots of nice pictures of them without making any of the adults fly away.
Other days we hiked long white beaches and found 9 glass fishing floats. We put them higher up on the beach out of reach of the high tide. Glass floats have not been used for decades, being replaced by plastic. It is extremely rare to find them and these are the first we had found in 4 years of remote cruising. We emailed Patrick's sister to see if they were worth enough to haul on to Brick House and send home. We thought maybe we had won the lottery. But low and behold they weren't worth much more than $50 or $60 each and that wasn't enough to justify lots of glass balls rolling around Brick House especially since sending one in the mail from Eyeye , the nearest post office, would cost $30. We left them where we found them for the next soul to discover and fantasize about the good life.