Black and hard.

Pick it up and put it in front of your nose and smell it, it smells fishy.

This is ambergris.

In ancient China, 'chemist' alchemists believed that ambergris was the saliva of the "dragon" in the sea when they slept, dripped into the sea water and solidified, and after a long time, it became "ambergris".

Ambergris is actually a sperm whale secretion, because it fails to digest the beak bones of squid and octopus, and will form a solid bond with the secretions in the intestine before spitting out. The freshly spit ambergris is black and soft, and the smell is unpleasant. However, after years of washing by sun, air and seawater, it hardens, fades and emits a fragrance.

The piece of ambergris that Chen Yan picked up was the size of a fist.

Chen Yan took out his mobile phone and took a picture of ambergris, and sent a micro \1 blog, a picture, which I picked up on the beach.

Many netizens replied to the micro \1 blog.

"Natural ambergris is called 'floating gold on the sea', and one gram is much more valuable than gold. ”

"I was so lucky to pick up a piece of ambergris. ”

"The color of this piece of ambergris is light white, showing that it has experienced long-term sun exposure, air oxidation and seawater soaking, rinsing, and is a piece of superb ambergris, which can be sold for more than 1 million yuan. ”

Chen Yan collected the ambergris into the spiritual water bead space.

Cross the sandy beach and reach a cliff.

Chen Yan found that there were many seabirds flying in the sky.

Chen Yan held the camera to the sky, zoomed in on the focal length, and found that these seabirds were swiftlets.

Swiftlets build nests on the cliffs.

Chen Yan pointed the camera at the nest on the cliff, zoomed in on the focal length, and could see the colloidal condensation of saliva mixed with feathers, dried seaweed, mud and other soft materials to build the nest.

The condensation of saliva is the famous tonic, bird's nest.

100\1 degree encyclopedia,...... During the breeding period, swiftlets use saliva to mix and cement their feathers and soil to form a nest, and the nest is placed on the cliff in the sea rock, which is the famous tonic - bird's nest.

There are many species of swiftlets, including brown-rumped swiftlets, gray-rumped swiftlets, Javanese swiftlets, square-tailed swiftlets, short-billed swiftlets, and so on.

Not all swiftlets build edible nests, only a few species build edible nests. There are only 6 species of swiftlets that can produce bird's nests, namely brown-rumped swiftlets, gray-rumped swiftlets, Javanese swiftlets, square-tailed swiftlets, brown-tailed swiftlets, and short-billed swiftlets that live in southwestern China and southeastern China.

Chen Yan took out his mobile phone and approached the cliff, took a photo of a swiftlet at close range, and then sent a micro-\1 blog, "Picture, ask for help, does anyone know what kind of swiftlet this swiftlet is." ”

Soon, some netizens replied.

"I don't know. ”

"Some swiftlets can produce bird's nests. ”

"Looking at the features, the tail is brown, like a brown-tailed swiftlet. ”

"I just took a 100\1 degree picture of a brown-tailed swiftlet, and compared it, it's not a brown-tailed swiftlet. ”

"So what kind of swiftlet is this? ”

"This is a new species of swiftlet. ”

"Yes, my grandfather was an ornithologist, and I just asked my grandfather with this picture, and my grandfather was very sure that it was a new species of swiftlet. ”

Chen Yan, "Thank you." ”

Chen Yan put his phone in his pocket.

This flock of swiftlets is on the cliffs, and the sky is dense, and the number is at least a million.

Chen Yan climbed onto the cliff and collected a few bird's nests, ready to take them back for testing, to test whether the bird's nests are edible and the nutritional content.

Vanatoa doesn't take Anatom Island too seriously, and of course it doesn't blame Vantua, after all, Anatom Island is too far from the main island. As long as you explore the island, you can find the red sandalwood tree with every inch of gold, the rare economic fish bigeye salmon, and bird's nest, with these 'specialties', the Vanutua's people have long been rich, and now they are cheaper Chen Yan.

Chen Yan continued to explore the island.

Chen Yan came to a mangrove forest.

Mangrove forest is a special ecosystem, which is a unique evergreen shrub and small tree community in tropical and subtropical bays and estuarine mudflats, which grows in the tidal flats and shoals at the junction of land and sea, and is a special ecosystem for the transition from land to sea.

When Chen Yan arrived, the sea water had just receded, leaving a tidal flat.

Chen Yan took off his shoes and stepped into the mud, suddenly, Chen Yan found a nose in the mud, the whole nose looked oval, the skin was smooth like a layer of leather, and the flesh was very thick.

Chen Yan knew what it was.

This is geoduck.

Geoduck is a high-grade seafood that is admired and eaten by Chinese and Japanese people in the Far East.

In China, if the geoduck is imported from the United States, the price is 200 yuan per catty.

Chen Yan dug up the silt and dug out the geoduck.

The geoduck burrowed deep into the mud, and after half an hour, Chen Yan's entire arm and head went into the hole he had dug up, and he finally felt the shell of the geoduck and dug it out.

This geoduck is huge, weighing 4,5 kg.

Digging out this geoduck, Chen Yan was covered in mud.

Chen Yan put the geoduck into the spiritual water bead space, and will use this geoduck to make a dish.

Chen Yan walked in the mud of the tidal flats, and he could find many noses exposed in the mud along the way, and it seems that this tidal flat is rich in geoducks.

A few days later, Chen Yan circled the island.

Chen Yan went deep into the island to explore.

The island is densely jungled, not at all like an island with tropical scenery, but like a tropical rainforest.

……

Chen Yan stopped.

Chen Yan found a red sandalwood tree.

With the stout size of this rosewood tree, it has grown for at least hundreds of years.

Last year, Chen Yan cut down 13 such stout rosewood trees to make furniture, auctioned for more than 300 million yuan, and sold for an average of 230 million yuan each.

Chen Yan is not short of these 230 million, the red sandalwood tree is so thick, it has grown for hundreds of years, it is not easy to grow, it is a pity to cut it, let it stay on the island and continue to grow.

……

As night falls in the jungle, the jungle becomes quiet.

Chen Yan entered the Spirit Water Bead Space.

I caught a bigeye salmon in the river, removed the head and tail and gutted it, and cut off two pieces of sideways meat, the meat was delicate and the white fat was stacked to create a perfect texture. Pour the appropriate amount of olive oil into a pan and fry the fillets over low heat, adding half a lemon juice, salt and a pinch of black pepper to the fried fillets.

There is also a geoduck, boil a pot of water until boiling, put the mussel and the shell into the boiling pot together, heat it evenly on both sides a few times, pick it up for about 1 minute, quickly remove the skin and shell, and slice the mustard is a 'geoduck sashimi'.

The taste of geoduck is OK, there is no special taste in the sashimi itself, it is fresh, not the kind of freshness of monosodium glutamate, and a little sweetness, plus a little mustard, very nasal flushing, but very refreshing.

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You can also collect one if you see it.