Second Planting Day

May 3rd,4th, 5th 2007- I was once again informed that construction would cause us to do something different with the planting. This time the construction crew wanted to dump excess sand that they removed for the road. They wanted to dump the sand on the areas we where going to plant. Instead of postponing the planting date and letting the plants go to waste we did a very simple effective thing, We moved down the beach to areas where the plants would not be dumped upon and it worked great. We arrived at the beach around 8:00 and waited for the rest of the guys and the plants to show up. Soon most of the boy scouts where there and the plant fallowed soon after. The infant sea oats where really small. You could stick about four of them into a space on a muffin tray but that's completely of subject. Because of their size we dug holes about an inch deep and gently placed dirt around the plant to cover up the roots. Troop 588 and the Nature Conservancy where very helpful in the project and because of their assistance we where once again ahead of the time planned. We did another garbage pick-up on the beach as we did before and I was very surprised and pleased to see much less garbage on the beach than the previous time when we where hauling back rain tarps. Soon our lunch arrived and we ate before saying goodbye to some of the volunteers. Although some of our earlier plants are not doing so well due to the transition of planting, I believe the little sea oats that where planted should do very well and grow to the height which they are supposed to. It's just another chapter of my eagle project in action.