I'm working on an official report today that I promised to make for the reverend mother Sisyriana Kahoudi on the Gamdis trip.
She won't be interested in the descriptions of local fauna and flora and sightseeing. So that is something I can share here.
The interesting thing about the sand on Gamdis III is that acts like a liquid - you could not walk on it without sinking in. It forms a sand sea, and the rocky outcroppings are the only places accessible for settlement and exploitation. To travel accross the sand, you need a boat. Luna's family has a sand sailing business, and we got a sailing boat to travel to our destination, a mountainous ridge that rises out of the sand seas and is owned by Luna's family.
The sand sea is also home to some remarkable creatures. There are sand skates, which look like manta rays and can dip out of the sand. They followed the sail boat for a while. There is also a sand lion, it makes a kind of bowl in the sand, a funnel of huge proportions and with a web in the center. Our ship almost got dragged into it. I had a little moment of panic, but Luna and the sailors were able to steer clear from it.
Curiously, there are also places with water, and the usual fish, on 'land'.
I wonder how the sand fish taste and if it's different from the usual fish like rockjaw....
