Bumming on the beach.

In my last post a minute ago I forgot to mention that when we were getting ready to go pull the last night we decided that we didn't need all 5 of us in the boat so Sarah and I stayed on the beach where we had been doing our field work.
It was just a little sandy section of shore just downstream of sturgeon falls but it was sunny and warm and had lots of interesting things. I found a spot where it looked like a turtle nest had been because there were a bunch of soft broken egg shells laying around. I also decided to be my random self and climb up one of the banks to see what was around and came across 2 garter snakes. One was pretty big and about 3 feet long and one was smaller and only about a foot long. But the weird thing was that the smaller one looked like it was molting but got stuck because the very end of it's tail looked like it was tied in a not. I dunno how that happened..and it wasn't just curled up that way because it was dragging it's tail along that way. Being the kind of person I am, I picked it up and carefully untied it's tail....I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do, but I was just trying to help. I put it down and it slithered away so I hope it was good.
There was other random neat stuff like an owl pellet and the world's greatest skipping stone. Sadly, I am not very skilled in the ways of the skipping stone so I threw it and it hit the water once, flew about 10 ft and then hit the water and sank. maybe next time.
This has been my random explanation of a nice half hour bumming around on a random beach along the Winnipeg river. haha.