Help with riddle
- mrtheandrew
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Help with riddle
So I am staying up at a beach resort near Sequim, and they have a riddle-based scavenger hunt. I can't solve this last riddle. Maybe someone here will know:
I'm a little white rock
My name is rather sweet
You will find me on the beach
Under your feet.
Any ideas? I know it is something obvious, but it is escaping me right now.
I'm a little white rock
My name is rather sweet
You will find me on the beach
Under your feet.
Any ideas? I know it is something obvious, but it is escaping me right now.
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I was going to say silica, but that's basically a broader spectrum of the same thing
-Erika
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Thats the only rock I know worth' collecting on the beach... that and polish glass...
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Agates are certainly not white though. I mean sand is generally made of quartz but that is not a sweet pun word?
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The white sand is made from the excrements of parrot fish...so..
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And trigger fish... Ha Ha Ha HaNorris wrote:The white sand is made from the excrements of parrot fish...so..
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I had to go look, but yeah I was right too. so.....
Because parrotfishes don’t have stomachs, their meals pass straight through the long intestine, exploding in a cloud of sand out the backdoor. Larger parrotfish are like sand factories, producing as much as 840 pounds of sand per year. For Oahu’s snorkeling hot spot, Hanauma Bay (where a few hundred parrotfish graze), that means hundreds of tons of fish-made sand per year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/2 ... 52935.html
Because parrotfishes don’t have stomachs, their meals pass straight through the long intestine, exploding in a cloud of sand out the backdoor. Larger parrotfish are like sand factories, producing as much as 840 pounds of sand per year. For Oahu’s snorkeling hot spot, Hanauma Bay (where a few hundred parrotfish graze), that means hundreds of tons of fish-made sand per year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/2 ... 52935.html
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Oh you were saying ...Trigger fish TOO
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Hmmm.....the white sand found on the Florida Panhandle's beaches is often called sugar sand.
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Nice work Penelope - that's the closest thus far
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Thanks! Finally, all my time spent there is worth something! Besides possible skin cancer from all those sunburns and memories of occasional underage drinking.
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Yup, I think you got this one.Penopolypants wrote:Hmmm.....the white sand found on the Florida Panhandle's beaches is often called sugar sand.
-Erika
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Maybe we should bring back the Haiku thread... ?
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Is sugar sand a term that is used around here? I haven't heard it. The other riddles had answers that were things found locally, like pinecones and rhododendrons.
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It wasn't a rock, it was a rooooock lobster!
Oh, wait....
Oh, wait....
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Not in beach/diving terms, I don't think. Sugar sand is the grainy sugar stuff left from dehydrating tree sap.mrtheandrew wrote:Thanks for all the suggestions. Is sugar sand a term that is used around here? I haven't heard it. The other riddles had answers that were things found locally, like pinecones and rhododendrons.
-Erika
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60south wrote:It wasn't a rock, it was a rooooock lobster!
Red snappers snappin'
Clam shells clappin'
Mussels flexin'
Flippers flippin'
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60south wrote:It wasn't a rock, it was a rooooock lobster!
Oh, wait....
funny one ...
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Well, I used sugar quartz and that completed the riddle. The lady at the front desk said that or sugar agates would be correct. We were rewarded with free ice cream from the schwanns man. Thanks for the help everyone! I took the family over to Salt Creek yesterday to show them the beauty and there was no one in the sites near the entry points. Im sure it will be different over the weekend.
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