Friday Feeling

Payday.
A feeling typically reserved for Friday, but surprisingly one felt just yesterday while on an unlikely beach. Upon pulling to the side of a busy street and making our ways towards the water, we discovered a bed of seaweed cushioning more than thirty delicate sea urchins. With each find I was drawn back to the summers of my childhood, those spent on footprint free sandbanks in the Exumas where in a race against my brother and sister I would attempt to overfill a once empty container with mother nature’s discards: tellins, sand dollars, sea eggs and biscuits, and the occasional abandoned queen conch. To find the sandbanks I speak of, and for seamless navigation of the more than 360 inlets and cays that make up the Exumas, refer to this map.