Time to go.

It was time to go.



Linc looked over at his Father, blew him a kiss, then
stepped through the arch and through the portal into another time so
very distant. This is where it all began, Pangea.

He found himself looking out over a body of water. He looked around
and saw that he was in a tropical area, because there were coconut
palm trees all up and down the beach he had come out on. He looked
back to where he had just been, but could see nothing but a bright
blue glow. He started to walk to the shore line, but turned back a
bit. He could see where someone had made a crude arrow. He then
gathered up rocks and driftwood , and improved the arrow pointing
toward the bright glow, then piled a bunch of them to mark where he
came through the portal. He even shivered a bit, not knowing what
could happen next as he walked toward the shoreline. He could see
across the water, there was land with a small mountain close to the
shore, so he figured he must be in a bay , or inlet from the ocean, as
he could smell salty seawater. Looking to his right there was an
expansive length of beach as far as he could see. When he looked
down the beach to his left, he could see a large outcropping of rocks.
He decided to head on down that way. The beach was sloping gently from
the tree line to the waters edge, where small waves were kissing the
shore.
As he looked up and down the beach, he could also see a
line of debris that had been washed up by some very high tides,
since the waters edge was some twenty feet or more away. That's
strange, he thought. If he were in a bay, how could the tides get
that high? He shrugged, then decided to walk along the line of
debris. He picked up a stick to use as a walking stick, and used it
to poke around a bit in the stuff. There was a lot of shells, some of
which he had never seen before. Quite a few rocks here and there.
Small crabs scuttled out of the seaweed and kelp, when he disturbed
it. There were also a few piles of driftwood here and there. "Oh
wow! Holy cow!" Linc said to himself. Here was a monster clam
shell. " Hey this thing is as big as Mom's roaster". Linc said
again. He picked it up and was looking at it when the earth began to
tremble then shake violently. Linc was thrown down on the ground.
Must have been a nasty earthquake. Now he knew why the debris was so
far up on the beach. Because of a tsunami caused by a quake. He
looked across the bay and saw the mountain cough out a thin cloud of
smoke. No eruption yet, but this quake was just a warning. He
started to stand up when something hit his leg. It was a coconut
still in the husk that had rolled down the slope. Wow! This brings
back memories he thought as he sat there. Memories of a time when he
was about 6 years old and camping with his Uncle Vernon.
His Uncle had brought a coconut in the husk on that camping
trip. He told Linc to watch carefully. " This is what you can do if
when you are grown up, and ship wrecked on a tropical island." He
then took out his leather-man knife and cut the husk off the coconut.
He then used the tool to ream out the holes in it and gave it to Linc
to drink. After Linc had drank it, his uncle used the saw on the
tool and cut a couple of inches off the top. He then pried out the
meat and handed the shell to Linc . " Now we have a cup to use." Then
he took the tool and separated the fibers in the husk, set it on fire
and piled the gathered sticks and pieces of log on it. "While I
catch us some fish, I want you to get some water in the cup, put a
bunch of that mint there by the water in it the set the cup on the hot
rocks by the fire. You will get a surprise." he said. While they
cooked the fish on sticks over the fire, Linc noticed steam coming out
of the cup . His uncle took the tool again and took the shell from
the fire. He told Linc to let the shell cool til he could pick it up.
Uncle told him to taste the liquid in the cup, he did and found out he
hat peppermint tea.

Linc had to laugh out loud as he recalled that memory. He
picked up the coconut and the clam shell and went on down the beach.