Volunteering at Caladesi Island

Hi All,

We have a new volunteer job at Honeymoon Island State Park. Caladesi is a 15 minute boat ride from Honeymoon. We take the crew boat over at 8 AM.

Since the first visitor ferry isn't until 10, we can walk the beach and collect shells. Last year, Caladesi was voted 4th best beach in US! At 8:30 AM, we have the whole beach to ourselves.

Not counting the occasional sanderling.

Today was cold and windy but the shelling was excellent (see Sandy's bag).

We set up a table with exhibits of shells and skulls of Caladesi wildlife adjacent to the ferry dock.

Every half hour the ferry brings us visitors who stop to talk to us about our displays.

We also have activities for kids. These three are triplets.

In late afternoon we pack up the displays and take the ferry back to Honeymoon.

The first two Sundays we talked to 62 and 71 people. Today was cold and windy so we only spoke to 18 hardy souls.

It is a great volunteer gig even though we didn't see any bears.

Love,

Sandy & Carl 

greenbaum2@gmail.com

617-435-8502