Gitmo Travelogue, Thurs, 17Sep

After breakfast, we went to Ferry Landing Beach, which is actually inside the Bay. It's a sandy beach (not fine sand like a real beach, but close) and I did more snorkling, which was much easier since I didn't have to fight the Atlantic! I saw a starfish on the bottom and a few fish, but not as many as I saw at Windmill. Noreen picked up shells and "sea glass" which is pieces of glass from bottles & whatnot that were thrown off of the shore or ships and broke and the sea has worn down to smooth pieces. One of the craft/hobbies here at Gitmo is to find sea glass and make jewelry out of it, which they sell at the Exchange. I got burned good while snorkling (ugh). Then we went up to where officers' quarters used to be, which is along the windward side facing the end of the bay & the Atlantic. This area was also a strategic spot for gun emplacements, and there are 2 of them, both dated 1906 and I took some pics of the emplacements. We then went down steps to Glass Beach (which is near the batteries). Glass Beach is so named because the old-old Officer's Club was on a cliff overlooked this "beach" and the officers would toss their emtpy bottles down to the water below, where they'd break and eventually become sea glass. Noreen found lots of glass down here, including a couple of thick porcelain/ceramic pieces that look like they were originally old medicine bottles and some pale green pieces that were definitely from Coke bottles (any other beverage use that glass color?). We had dinner that night at the Bayview Club and then a drink at the Tiki Bar before crashing early for the night, since Noreen had an early morning uniform inspection she couldn't get out of.