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The family took me on a trip to the sand dunes today. The dunes are constantly shifting and revealing hidden treasures. At the moment nearly a kilometer of ancient sea bed and fossilized coral is exposed in a gap between the dunes. There is fan coral and brain coral some of it a meter high and perfectly preserved in stone. You can see the intricate structures of the ancient organisms. I’m told it dates from approximately 750,000 years ago.
Also newly revealed by the shifting sands is the ruins of a car. The origins are no mystery. The father of the boys I am teaching bogged it when he was 14 years old. He’s now in his mid-30s. He took the brand new car for a joy ride, bogged it, lost the keys in the sand and there the vehicle has sat for nearly 20 years as the sands covered it up and hid it. In the last six months it has reappeared to remind him of his youthful adventures.
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