Crabitat

By Conrad

Hi this is my crabitat for Hermity. We call it a crabitat instead of a habitat. Hermity has two water bowls, a food bowl, and some toys. he also has some sand. Happy Hermity!

New pets - land hermit crabs

Mark's hermit crab

Mark: This is my hermit crab. Her name is Crab Claw. I found her on a tree at Black Point. We know she is a female because there are two black dots with holes on her underside.

Conrad's hermit crab

Conrad: I found my hermit crab in the bushes when I was heading back to the dinghy dock. We don't know the gender yet. My hermit crab's name is Hermity. I'm still working on my crabitat. I found a water bowl and a food place for him.

The gyroscope car

 

This is our gyroscope car. We made it by putting a gyroscope in a Lego car that we built. It has a Lego board with a point in the front. Then we got a string and tested out our new mechanical car. It uses the gyroscope to propel it forward. The farthest it's gone is one foot.

At the beach by Conrad

This is our river. We call it the great seaweed river. We were going to make it a sinkhole but we made it the river. A bunch of sand fell in. We made quicksand too. This is the way we made it: water came in  and we stirred up the sand. There was a part we fell in because the water got deep quick.  

Fish and other creatures

 

Conrad:

 

We made a little aquarium. This is how we made it: we ate all the pretzels, we put sand in the jar, and we put some water in the jar. I used a net to catch crabs. Mom caught a puffer-fish looking thing. We brought the crabs and the little fish back to the boat. A few minutes later we let the fish and crabs go.

 

 

 

Mark:

 

We made a fish home. We made it so fish could swim through it. We thought the fish would like it.

Happy Birthday Mark!

I turned 6 yesterday! We decorated my cake with Halloween candy and had fun. Mom and Dad didn't let us put Nerds on it though. My favorite present was Legos from Grandma and Grandpa and Nana and Grandpa. We had a fun year living on the boat.

 

A dead armadillo at Cumberland Island. We saw a live one

too but it was hard to take a picture of that one.

Charleston Fountain

We are in Charleston. We played at the fountain and found a little water fort that Mark found. It was created by the ring of water coming out of the fountain. First we ran to the back and then crawled up to the front. You can crawl around in it if you are small enough. Mark said, "This is gonna be great!" and put his face into it. We were trying to splash the water down the drain. We were hiding from Mom and Dad. There was a big blob of water that splashed up and poured on us. If you try to go in it, it might push you down. People were looking at us and taking pictures.