Saturday, April 25, 2009
25 April - Day 52. It's amazing what washes up on the beaches here. Floats of all sizes predominate but there's lots of other interesting stuff too. At most beaches you'll find a tree, decorated Christmas style, with some of the more colorful bits which beach comers have found. Folks decorate their houses and yards with the stuff too. I was a bit surprise however, when walking through New Plymouth yesterday, we saw a Williams Research jet engine adorning a flower bed. These little puppies are expensive, to say the least, and normally propel military UAVs. It was simply laying there like any other piece of detritus. I was told that the engine had been inside a U.S. Navy target drone that had washed ashore. We found the drone's fuselage adorning the Sundowner Bar in New Plymouth. At anchor in White Sound, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas. 0nm today: 1302nm total. DBH
