Louis and Clark

As our days here on Palmyra are coming to an end, we've been trying to do all that there is to offer before we're kicked out on the 19th or 20th. A couple days ago, we ventured out of the west lagoon(which we are currently in) and took mini miti clear to the end of center lagoon. We felt like the first explorers to ever set eyes on the prestine shoreline. As we reached the furtherst point of the lagoon, the dinghy engine sputtered to a stop. That's right, we ran out of gas! No fear, we had a couple trusty paddles and the wind at our back helping to push us along. Now we really felt like early explorers:-) During the paddle back we had some very close encounters with the endangered red footed boobies(?) who would swoop by our heads in curiosity at very high speeds. Amber threatened to lessen their population with her paddle(probably something nature conservancy wouldn't be too thrilled about:-)

As of today, we hiked out to the west end of Cooper island with our buddy Dadu, the island dog. We found old military bunkers and buildings that were overgrown almost completely with vegetation. With some hesitation, we were able to enter into a couple of the drury, ghostly buildings. On the brighter side of things, we enjoyed an apple and a beautiful view of the ocean on the furtherst tip of the island before heading back to camp. The giant land crabs, species crabiolis maximus(jmz' scientific identification), gave us good entertainment along the way.