Forgot to mention, the further problem encountered at the village was the spontaneous (I didn’t drop it or anything) of my laptop and phone (suicide pact?) which left me in a bit of a pickle.

My equally traumatic experience was just a few days before leaving the village, we were on one of the reefs when I saw massive red octopus, really amazing and intelligent creaturs! it was swimming and gliding along the bottom exploring the holes. However, when lavinia saw it, dinner obviously flashed in front of her eyes and a long battle (with much ink) ensued. Lavinia won. She turned its head inside out to kill it. I declined eating it for dinner.

on a similar note, kirsy says i should creat a guide to tasty reef fish recipe type book, sice i seam to have eaten a lot of them. this worries me! (because parrotfish IS tasty!)