On the coral at the top, you are right that it once been under water, Water goes up and down. Land does the same. I think that these small islands are splinters pushed up by plate tectonics. Never mind it's beautiful.
Just some serious thought. If the coral where the statue is was under water at one time, there is a LOT of water that went somewhere ! The Great Flood during the time of Noah didn't cover the earth for thousands of years that it would take for that much coral to form. My guess is that there was a massive upheaval in the earths crust (earth quake ?) which pushed the coral upwards to that elevation.
Wes why not rent a mini excavator a Cat 308 and for a couple weeks to a month when you get through those fence rows you can go through other places that need widening cause I’m surprised you mentioned the cat 955 loader dozer cause you said you weren’t going to talk about that paper weight of a assache that if it was mentioned it would become a metal fireworks display of I sware I parked it here and poof it disappeared
