So todays fishy fact is that sharks have two penis’s (peni?) so that when the made want to rape the lady shark, he has ease of access because he has to peni to choose from.  isnt nature lovely somtimes!  On a slightly similar note, the locals keep feeding us the (not very pleasant: I like mine form a cheap Chinese takeaway and deep fried thank you very much) seaweed called loomi and after feeding the boys buckets full told them in was an aphrodisiac! (i made sure my knees were not showing). the boys are all really nice and friendly, missing all my MEMs and langwithians though!

On a work related not after being shown how to ‘garden’ coral I am now let loose on the reef and have started collecting my data, coral cover is stupidly high and the water so perfectly warm I haven’t needed a wet suit yet (the back tan is a stunner if I don’t say so myself). The teaching at the school has also began: we are making ‘fish houses’ that the kids will be able to easily swim to (Fijians have wide feet: I think it is because they are trying to evolve finns) and see coral and fish colonise the houses over time which will be really fun and interesting for them. The general here in Fiji seems to be, if it moves, eat it. I was informed that turtle is on that list ‘when they can get their hand on it’. Safe to say that dampened my appetite. 

The women are defiantly trying to domesticate me. I can now also make jam yum yum, though my favourite new party trick is being able to get hermit crab to come out of their shells my whistling at them. Okay its not a very practical party trick unless it’s a beach partly but still. I do feel a bit mean though as the purpose of getting them out of the shell is to use them as bait…