Beach Construction

We left for the beach on Friday around five thirty and most of us slept all the way down.  When we got to the beach we walked along the edge of the water until we came to a construction site on the edge of the beach.  I think they were either fixing or building a new pier because a big excavator was scooping up garbage in front of a broken pier and there was a crane pulling big girders out of the ground.  The excavator dropped the garbage into a dump truck which was sorted by a big scoop with large holes in it to filter the garbage out of the sand.  After we had watched the construction for a while we walked back down the beach a ways, and we stopped to do what most people who go to the beach do; swim.  We walked out to the sand bar and walked along it till it ended rather abruptly at which point we swam back to the shore.  While we were at the beach we found a bunch of really cool shells!  Sadly they were all inhabited by hermit crabs.  We put the crabs in a little pool of water and they started to emerge from their shells all but one.  We decided since it did not come out and it did not really move we poked it with broken shells that it must have been dead.  We took it home with us and when we got home we pulled it out with pliers.  We also had to pull barnacles off it, which was kinda gross.  It was worth it however.  This is what it looks like now!