Sunday



Sunday marked the beginning point for Edgecombe Early College's annual Fort Fisher experience. When we arrived in Wilmington, NC on Oct. 12 we went to the North Carolina Aquarium. Once we entered the aquarium we were split into two groups. The 1st group went on a behind the scene’s tour of the aquarium. While behind the scene’s the group was able to gain knowledge about the work the goes on behind the "pretty tanks of animals." The 2nd group went on a tour of the aquarium and visited the touch tank where they could feel animals such as sea anemities and horseshoe crabs. After leaving the Aquarium we went to sugar loaf hill. We hiked from the bus to the beach and then back to the bus. In the middle of the hike we stopped and Taylor who was our tour guide stopped and told us a story. He told us about how the white moss that grows down from the tree branches got its name. The moss got its name from the Spaniards. Their was this man who had a daughter and he traded her to this man for a product. The man was very old; he had a head full of white hair and a big white beard. When the daughter saw how old the man was she took off running into the woods and them man chased after her. She then ran up into the tree tops and he followed but before he could grab her, the branch he was on broke and he feel down. As he was falling his beard got caught in the branches and it ripped it off. It only left bunch of white hair in the trees tops.