Cumberland island here we come!

Cumberland island is really fun! I found so many shark's teeth so did my family we found big ones and little ones. My mom found the jackpot it was huge (the right by my sisters hand)! The black shark teeth are fossils and are between 3 and 6 million years old.

Sharks lose teeth all of the time so that they can grow in new ones. The teeth become fossils if they are covered by sediment immediately - as the tooth dissolves minerals replace the original material.  We found most of the shark's teeth on spoil islands. These are made when they dig the channel for giant submarines as the bottom is moved to the side of the channel by dredges.

Can you find the shark tooth on this spoil island beach?*

This mansion is in ruins. It dates from the Gilded Age, just like our mansions in Newport. You can't go inside this one because the mansion might break even more when you are inside. Newport's mansions might look like this if they had not been kept up. This one belonged to Andrew Carnegie and is called Dungeoness.

My sister and I got to ride on the beach

Me and my family even saw wild horses they were so cool! But we did not get close enough to get any good pictures. There was also a trail to the beach. On the road you could also find shark's teeth.

In this picture I am driving my Grandma to the beach

The boardwalk to the beach has a telescope. My sister and I went crazy for them!

A sunset taken from Lyra at Cumberland Island. I love all of the pretty colors that glow. It reminds me of the book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with a piece of butter on top of mashed potatoes.

My sister inching along a live oak branch

The entire family climbing in a live oak tree. My dad used to climb this tree when he was a little older than me.

*The tooth is the black triangular object in the middle bottom of the photograph