Mommy-Buddy Day

We had a special day when Brigham was the only chap home. Well, that's not true. Alena was technically home but she was asleep. Brigham really wanted to go to Sidab again. I suggested we go by paddle board. We went to the Yacht Club.

We paddled to this first, very dirty cove, and ate our pizza.  Brigham found some shells. 

This is truly a beautiful trip. The shore is lined with cliffs and a few coves. We saw loads of turtles and when we got to the 2nd set of Sidab coves we saw a couple of sharks and this:

I had never seen a jelly like this. I fished it out of the water to investigate. Little did I know it was the deadly Box-Jelly. I'm SO thankful nobody was stung.

Speaking of boxes, Brigham took a chocolate box and arrange some special shells. He really does have an amazing collection. I took Brigham and Jay to the Natural History Museum. They browsed around and I asked Brigham if he wanted to look at the curator's shell collection in the upper office. We were able to see Hannah and Shirha and the boys looked through the cabinets.

Hannah also gave Brigham the job of finding these three shells which are unique to Oman. He's excited for the challenge and wants to have his name on the donation records at the Museum like Samuel does.

So the other Friday when we were helping Elise find her 100 tusk shells, I kept coming across these really unique rings. They're so perfect and random, they look man made. But when I picked them up and examined them I felt they were not. Also, the random way they showed up at different places along the beach seemed natural. I had no idea how to figure out what they were other than the google lens search which yielded nothing. Then, I saw this:

Egg collar made by the Moon Snail. Mystery solved. She makes it to protect her eggs somehow and she uses all natural ingredients: sand and mucus. 

Look forward to our next trip to the Yacht Club.