It is a big island, but we took our lunch and determined to do what we could.

We hired a boat and rowed over to the mouth of a creek in the island.

We went up this creek quite a long way, and landed at a little pier, where we made the boat fast.

The man who owned the boat told us just how to go.

We first made a flying call at the coquina quarries, where they dig the curious stuff of which the town is built.
This is formed of small shells, all conglomerated into one solid mass that becomes as hard as stone after it is exposed to the air.