TREASURES OF THE TIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 20

TREASURES OF THE TIDE

. "In Samoa after high tide, we used to wander along the beach, - certain of finding some lovely shells. At low tide we would follow the coral line, the lowest point the water reached. Here we found exquisite coral; - Often for -amusement we looked for the alphabet in coral. The easiest letters to obtain were^T..'; and T. Sometimes at**ebb tide when the sea was ankle-deep, almost: out to the reef, we found pink, purple, green, and orange •• shells: in the closely-growing seaweed. ) Here and" there were large-sized'pieces of coral that we could just manage to overturn. Beneath them we found shells, and in the newly-exposed hole bright red, blue, and yellow fish no longer than my little finger. It was the fear of* our young lives that an octopus should? also reside there. At full tide the water was waist-high, and we swam where once we ran." . "AUTE" (14). Island Bay.