Stepping through the wormhole, SG-X2 finds itself on the exact same beach shown by the MALP image.

The data from the MALP had indicated that the diameter of the island was just under 300 feet, with the gate in the middle of the island. It had an elevation of 7.5 feet. The island wasn't perfectly round, though, and there wasn't any sign of a fringing coral reef around the island. There could still be one; just none of it broke the surface of the water.

It wasn't too hot, around 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity was tolerable, but there was no breeze. That was to be expected considering the time of day.

Based on arc of the horizon, the planet was slightly smaller than Earth and had .92 gravity. However, it had a 33-hour day, and it was just past noon. It clearly fell within the Goldilocks zone of the sun, which was G3-V main sequence star.

Other than the gate, the only anomaly was the ring of stones about 5 feet from the water's edge. They were all irregular in shape (as opposed to being spherical, for instance, or smooth) but about the same size--maybe the size of a pumpkin, depending on how much was buried in the sand. There were 12 of them, spaced reasonably equidistant from each other.

The only tracks in the sand were those made by the MALP's wheels.

It was both wonderful and eerie.

"Once more into the breach," Jason muttered as he stepped through the gate. There was a momentary sense of moving really, really fast and then he was out the other side. He immediately did a tumble roll to the left and came up crouched down on one knee.

He'd never heard of that maneuver actually having any benefit, but it felt right, and took him out of the line of sight of any potential threat.

~There aren't any stairs...~ he thought.

Kyle stepped through, blinking and shaking his head as he appeared. His attention was immediately caught by the ring of stones and he headed in their direction, dropping to his knees by the nearest one and examining its surface.

Karen had followed Bjorn through the gate. She took up the right side, scanning the area. She turned and watched Kyle and moved to make sure he had cover. "Careful Kyle, don't need a mermaid popping out and snatching you." Karen joked as she moved to stand next to him. "Sundial?" She murmured as she looked at the stones.

 Lizzy came through and quickly looked around to get her position, she did see the stones as well.  There wasnt much here, there must be more to this she also headed over to the stones as well and took a look.

Coleman brought up the rear. He saw the doc and scientist already gawking at some stones that looked quite like a fire ring to him. Still, alien planet, so who knew?

"Ok you two be careful about that fire ring. God knows what purpose it serves here. Bjorn and Stewart, let's get this boat down by the water so we can use it if and when we need to. We can look into the water while we are at it, to see if anything is interesting. "

Coleman finds a decent spot on the boat to help move it.

Jackie lands on the other side regaining her composure as she screams with childlike glee in the wormhole.

The stones were spaced equidistant from each other in a ring around the whole island, down by the water. They were too far apart to ever contain a fire, which, in any case, would have covered the whole island.

Kyle examines the rock closest, essentially straight ahead towards the water. It appears to be volcanic rock, which would be consistent with the possible formation of the island. It also appears to have been subjected to a lot of weathering.

Other than the spacing, which probably isn't something that would occur naturally, the only oddity is that there is a rune carved onto the outer side of the stone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that it matches one of the symbols on the stargate.

Kyle pointed the symbol out to Karen, who was hovering over him a bit.

"Let's see if the others have similar markings. This one is the same as one of the glyphs on the stargate. Not sure if it's in the dialling sequence for here, one drawback of the Earth setup is that it's not quite so obvious unless you watch the chevrons lock very closely during dialling."

He trotted over to the next rock to check it out. Were the symbols on the side facing the stargate or the sea side... or both? What sequence were they in? So many questions. Volcanic rock, certainly, but they seemed to have been placed rather than the island having weathered itself a row of teeth.

ooc: oops, misunderstood the description. :D

Once the still uninflated boat is basically next to the water, Coleman turns his attention to the stones and what the more brainy focused people were up to.

"What if that circle of stones is, itself, a sort of gate? Or maybe a dialing device. Either way it seems like the way to dial would be to run around touching or pushing each symbol of the address."

Coleman does a quick count of the stones to verify that there's the right number for a typical gate.