August 15, 1894 they returned to camp and witnessed quite an unusual sight. There is always a dismal mist under the sun when its about three quarters of an hour high but on this particular evening, Overton, standing on a goods box called the attention of the whole crowd, seventy-five in number, to see the sun setting perfectly clear. You could look at it as you would the moon, without hurting your eyes.
Overton, wishing to add some to his collection of shells, went down to the beach about 4:30 a.m. He met two men carrying something in a pail. When he asked what they were, they replied, “Rock Oysters” and told him how they had found them in the rocks. Wishing to see if they could procure some too, they went down to Sand Cape and found where the men had been. William Parrott, taking the axe, struck each side of the rock that protruded out like a coal-hod. Giving it a whack, he broke it in two. Then breaking it again, he found three rock oysters. They found enough to make a large dish pan full of oyster soup, with plenty of oysters for everyone. As the sea would ebb and flow it fit the oysters which were in a city similar to an acorn hull in the porous rock.