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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:49 am
by lazylane
how horrible! That trail is on my list for our December trip! Who would do such a thing??
conch all gone
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:52 am
by MarianneS
Are the conch shells gone or the path taken apart? I will be there in Jan and would gladly reconstruct the shells. It was such a wonderful sight.
conch all gone
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:52 am
by MarianneS
Are the conch shells gone or the path taken apart? I will be there in Jan and would gladly reconstruct the shells. It was such a wonderful sight.
conch all gone
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:53 am
by MarianneS
Are the conch shells gone or the path taken apart? I will be there in Jan and would gladly reconstruct the shells. It was such a wonderful sight.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:18 pm
by Bob & Anita
That is very sad.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:35 pm
by sherban
They were there in June....anyone else see them after that in 2008?...
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:41 pm
by California Girl
I never got there, but that is SO sad! Who would do that?? A tourist could never carry all those home!
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:20 pm
by jayseadee
Was it Omar??
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:43 pm
by MarkR
Is there some strange black market for conch shells?
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:12 pm
by Pia
They were there at the beginning of the week.
The National Park Service was on the trail cleaning it up and removing all trash. Brown Bay itself has a high reputation for poaching conch and the Park Service has been doing everything it can to stop that - poachers were there just last week.
Our guess (and again it's only a guess) is that in an effort to remove signs that the bay has conch, they removed all signs of them in their clean up effort as they are all gone - the old, broken, dirty, small, large, on the path and on the beach - they are all gone.
I would like to think they did not do it as they have known forever that they are there, but I can't think of who else would have removed them - if it was just the "pretty" one's I would blame someone wanting to take them home or to their construction site to put in a rock wall or something, but they are all gone - from inside the bushes - everywhere 
Pia
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:50 pm
by sherban
Pia wrote:They were there at the beginning of the week.
....Our guess (and again it's only a guess) is that in an effort to remove signs that the bay has conch, they removed all signs of them in their clean up effort as they are all gone - the old, broken, dirty, small, large, on the path and on the beach - they are all gone...
Pia
Pia- Let us know if you find out what happened, that's a shame.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:00 pm
by Exit Zero
Sounds like the NPS - as if the conch poachers don't know where the conch are w/o blatant signs.
It would not surprise me though that they ended up at a villa construction site - except for the thoroughness of the clean up - also I thought the NPS rules are that you cannot remove shells from the National Park.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:33 am
by Cindy in pa
Does anyone think that possible the high rains during the hurricane could have washed them back into the bay? Just a thought.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:53 am
by Pia
No, hubby hikes it everyday (even the day after Omar when it was still raining) and they were all there then and they were there at the beginning of last week. The reason we are not sure of the exact day they were gone is Cocui is limping and we have to cut here exercise down for 7 days so we are doing a "mini" hike 
Pia