A day with Indiana Jones

The other day was very exhausting but very cool at the same time.  Rob and I were invited to go bushwhacking with John Winter, an archaeologist who is responsible for finding most of the ruins on this islands.  Unlike most of the archaeologists that do work on this island, John has no problem fighting his way through the brush to the interior.  Much of the land at the center is untouched and has remained that way for hundreds of years.  The locals build their homes on the coast and the trails do not go very far inland.  I think Rob and I were both humbled while watching John at work.  I'm pretty sure that if that man even looked at a redwood, it would cut itself down. 

Our goal was to get to a pond that nobody has been to since maybe the 1700s.  Along the way we found an old rum jug from the early 1800s, and some carvings in the rocks that could possibly have been made by the lucayans who first inhabited this island.  We were very close to the pond, and I could actually see it after climbing to the top of a lignum vitae, but we had to turn around to get back in time for dinner.  Rob and I are going back to the trail in a couple days to finish clearing our way to the pond.  I am very excited to find out what sort of artifacts may still be in this area.

Today we set traps in Lighthouse Cave.  This cave has a conduit and the water level rises with the tide.  We went in at low tide and the water was at our shoulders.  Besides the small beam of light from our flashlights, we were in complete darkness.  We set traps in the closest thing to a conduit we could find, so tomorrow we will know if we found them or not.  Hopefully, something will be in them.