Little Lameshur Bay was where we had our Introduction to Snorkeling, taught by Blake from Valley Divers.  We learned to dive for objects, and as a last exercise, we all did a line search for silver dollars that the instructors had dropped in the sand.  Sean bet that we couldn't find them all, but we found them in just two passes.

The building in the distance is another one of the remnants of the sugar mills.  Next to that building, we found this Parkinsonia aculeata, a tree from the pea family.  This tree has an interesting symbiosis with a certain species of ants that would defend it from other insects.

Nearby was also the Cordia tree which had little trumpet-shaped flowers that the hummingbirds defended.  Laura and Alec were two of the students studying the behavior of the two species of hummingbirds on the island, the Green-throated Carib and the Antillian Crested.  There was competition among these two species and the Bananaquit.  Whereas the two hummingbirds used their long beaks and tongues to drink the nectar, the bananaquits poked holes at the base of flowers, rendering them useless to the hummingbirds.  Territories were often fiercely defended by these tiny birds to ensure a food supply.