Today we get plenty of Sunshine this morning. This afternoon we get a pretty good chance of scattered thunderstorms. A few storms may be severe. Our High today will reach 97F., while our Low this morning was 72F. Our Chance of Rain is 40%.

The Kids are up early this morning, as we are preparing for a potential boat trip to Shark Island, on the Nomini Bay side of the River. This is all predicated on the weather, and of course, the boat. We have a fair chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. We will see about the boat. I would hate to be on the river, with all of the kids, the boat die and a Thunder-boomer come up. That would be tragic.

The tides at Mount Holly Point, on Nomini Creek are:

Low 9:42AM

High 3:36PM

Low 9:41PM

The Moon rises at 8:08PM and the Sunset is at 8:23PM.

If the weather holds, and the boat behaves, it will be a great trip, as Shark Island is a very interesting trip. This Island has lots of fossils laid down in the Paleocene. You will find shark, ray, and crocodile teeth, so it is a pretty exciting place to visit. It gives the kids some perspective of life 55 million years distant, when the ocean shoreline was located about where the I-95 corridor is located today. At this time in geologic history, all of Florida and most of Texas and the Gulf Coast were underwater. The Great Lakes had not yet formed, and the ice caps were non-existent in the Northern Hemisphere. A pretty nice time to be walking around the planet (although H. Sapien was not yet around to enjoy the balmy weather). Based on the number of sharks teeth found in the geological layer, the waters were no place to be, and sharks seem to have been everywhere. There appear to have been barrier islands in this area off shore, as fossilized pine cones are evident in the sediments, as are a number of fossilized gastropods, a shallow water mollusk. It is interesting to visualize how the landscape appeared during this period in the planets history. Frankly it is easy to imagine on this day, when the weather is so hot and humid, what it would be like to be on one of these barrier islands on the outer-banks of the continental shelf with the water filled with sharks, rays, and sawfish among others, and the wetland shoreline inhabited by three species of saltwater crocodiles, and unimaginable dangerous reptiles. On land, you would be relatively safe, as mammals had not yet evolved to anything larger than a opossum (the marsupial a recent immigrant from South America), and possibly a medium sized cat, but not much more, as everything was pretty much wiped out by the KT Impact (Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event) and modern day mammals had not yet evolved.

Well, I am rambling now, and I had better come back to this world, and get at it.