Notes: Stories that kids love 5

Stranded by Ben Mikaelsen

cobia: a large percoid fish.  Percoid fish belong to the suborder Percoidea of spiny fish that include true perches, sunfish, sea bass, sea bream

The Florida Keys

manatee

guppies

umbilical cord

Chissom reef

transom

Colter's Cut: is similar to a canal

mangroves

manta ray

half-hitch

great white heron

Conch:  a person born here in the Keys

slack tide

frigate bird

pelican

musky

Pelican Harbor

ballast

sloughed:  the process of getting rid of skin

halyards:

aft and forward are directions on a ship and not positions

necropsy:  post mortem examination

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Love 6A    Love 6B     Love 7

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