Reports from the Field: Long Island

You may get the impression from our Long Island photo album that Jubilee’s field reporters were on holiday during our stay in Long Island, but in fact they were hard at work gathering research for their latest reports from the field...

Paridice in Long Island, by Emily
Long Island in the Bahamas is 76 miles long. Long Island has two blue holes and a lot of towns. One town is called Petty. That is the name of my Grandma Janet and Grandpa Carl.

We rented a car and went to one blue hole that was 660 feet deep. I swam in the hole. It was cool! The thing I liked was there is a dive plat form in the midle of the blue hole and I loved swiming to it.

At the blue hole beach I looked for hamburger beans with my friends on Kwitcherbitchen, but we did not find any. My brother Drew found one on another beach. A hamburger bean is a brown round bean that washes a shore from Africa all the way to the Bahamas in the currint. You can make a neck-lace with one of the beans which I will do when I find one.

Blue Hole, by Jake
We went to Long Island and there was a 663 feet blue hole. It is the biggest blue hole in the world depth wise. There was also a 40-50 foot cliff. I jump off a 38 feet part, but round it up to 40 feet! There are some people who free dive 327 feet in this hole. WOW! It was amasing. The blue hole is salt water and very clear. If you drop a rock in the middle it does down and down and down, but then it disapears. The end.

Bat Cave, by Drew
Long Island is about 20 miles east of Georgetown. Long Island has a big cave in the town of Salt Pond. The cave is 1,770 feet long and about 40 feet high inside. It carries four out of five different species of bats in the Bahamas. There were about 1,000 bats in the cave. It was the first time I had even seen bats in the wild. It was very cool to see, because there were a lot of baby bats too. The only down side was the floor was covered in bat poop which is called guano. We washed our feet when we got out of the cave. It was very hot in the cave so we got some ice cream after we finished exploring it.