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     Overlooking the bay

                          Cawing of the birds dismay

    Enter the big blue world

                       And lose yourself in currents

                    Now freely flowing

       Paella Valenciana       

Ingredients

    2 1/2 cups uncooked white rice

    6 cups chicken stock, divided

    3 cloves garlic

    1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley

    1/2 teaspoon curry powder

    5 saffron threads

    salt and ground black pepper to taste     

    1/4 cup olive oil

    1 onion, diced

    1 (3 pound) whole chicken, cut into small pieces

    2 cups peeled and deveined small shrimp, diced

    6 small lobster tails

    1/2 pound clams in shell, scrubbed

    1 (8 ounce) jar mushrooms, drained

    1 cup green peas

    1 (2 ounce) can mussels

       Paella Valenciana       

Cooking Instructions

       Rinse the rice with cold water; drain; set aside. Bring the chicken stock 

to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat, reduce the heat to low, cover, 

and keep warm. Work the garlic, parsley, curry powder, saffron threads, salt, 

black pepper, and 1/2 cup of the hot chicken stock together with a mortar and 

pestle until a smooth liquid forms; set the seasoning liquid aside.

Heat the olive oil in a paella pan over medium-high heat; cook and stir the 

onion until lightly browned. Stir in the chicken, shrimp, lobster, and clams; cook 

and stir until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes. Pour in 

the seasoning liquid.

Stir in the rice, pour in the hot chicken stock, and simmer until the rice is nearly 

tender, about 15 minutes. Add mushrooms, peas, and mussels; stir two times, 

and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat; cover and let stand until rice is soft 

and flaky, about 7 minutes.

Identifying Sea Turtle Nesting Grounds

Female loggerheads, green turtles and 

leatherbacks usually come ashore to nest at night.  

The best way to avoid disturbing a nesting female 

is to not use a flashlight or camera/video flash 

when on the beach at night.

You can distinguish between the arrival and 

departure crawl by looking for the direction that 

the sand is pushed in while the turtle was crawling 

(A and D in the figure). Also, examining the tracks 

and their relationship to the high tide line (E) can 

help determine the arrival crawl. Once determined, 

follow the arrival crawl up to the area where the 

sand is disturbed.

   In the disturbed sand area (B and C in the 

figure), there may be two “body pits” or 

differentiated areas of digging. The primary body 

pit is the larger of the two (C) and usually the 

turtle makes this just before digging the nest 

chamber. The smaller chamber (B) is made after 

nesting, when the turtle covers and camouflages 

the site. False crawls with disturbed sand usually 

will not have a well-defined secondary body pit. 

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Lise was a lonely sea horse. She lived with her family in the outer circle 

of the reef in a regular house, with a regular brother, and regular 

parents. The problem was she wasn't so regular herself. See, Lise had 

a problem; she was color blind. Now she had no idea why she was born 

color blind but under the ocean it was a curse to have no sight of color. 

The brilliants blues, the great greens, the whitest whites of the world; 

they were absent of color when she looked at them. Her mother would 

say "Color isn't everything in the world! Sometimes I wish I was color 

blind so I could give my eyes a rest from the visually noise!". Her father 

would say "Now Lise, it builds character to overcome obstacles like this. 

I don't want to hear anything else about it". 

Her older brother, who she was extremely close with her, was always 

ready to help out Lise if she ever needed it. "We can cross the street 

Lise, the light turned green". He would let her know whether her 

clothes matched; "Lise, you can't wear all black to school! People are 

going to think that someone you know passed away!" He even helped 

her pick out make up; "That shade is a little too dark. Here, try this 

one." When the kids would pick on her at school for not being able to 

see colors, her brother would always be there to comfort here. One day 

though, Lise was soooo angry at being teased by her friends that she 

accidentally got into a fight with her brother at home. She screamed "I 

don't need you to always be looking out for me at school! I can take 

care of myself!" Her brother screamed, "No you can't! You can't even 

see colors! Without me you would be the laughing stock of the whole 

school!". This went on and on for a couple of hours until finally they just 

stopped talking to one another. 

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The next week of school was horrible for Lise the seahorse. The fight with her 

brother had been spread throughout the school and she endured more teasing 

that week about not only being color blind but having her brother always stick 

up for her. That Friday she left school crying uncontrollably and decided to go 

for a swim around the reef to take her mind off of things. After about 10 

minutes, she decided to take a rest on a piece of coral that looked like a 

bright red tree. Of course she had no idea the coral was red. The moment she 

sat down, she heard a voice: "Hey, you! Watch were you decide to rest your 

flippers!". She jumped up startled and looked around to try and locate where 

the voice came from. All the coral looked bleach white and the same to her so 

she had no idea where the voice had come from. She went to the same tree-

like piece of coral to rest again and she heard the voice again: "Are you deaf?! 

I think not since you just looked every which way to find where my voice 

came from. So let me ask this question? Are you color blind?"

Lise finally realized where the voice had been coming from; the orange-piece 

of tree shaped coral that she had been using to rest. She said to the coral, 

"Actually, yes I am color blind. I have an awful unique case that only lets me 

see everything in white...and my friends at school pick on me for it. I yelled at 

my brother yesterday because of it and no I have no one to talk too. You are 

probably going to make fun of me as well so go ahead and do it!" She began 

crying instantly. The coral sat there shocked. It couldn't believe that Lise the 

seahorse was actually color blind. "What a weird guess...", he thought to 

himself. After comforting her for a little bit he was finally able to calm her 

down enough to tell the story of the area of the reef he lived in to her. They 

had a great time talking about it's history and where all the different types of 

coral were. They talked for so long that it got dark and Lise was almost late 

getting back home.

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