There turned out to be some really lovely snorkelling, many different kinds of beautiful multicoloured coral and hundreds of fish - some of which were new to us. In particular we saw a large fish, over a foot long, who seemed to be imitating a lump of coral with lots of lobes and warts on him. Phil thinks he was a stone fish. There were plenty of anemone fish, some whose bands were more blue than white, and others who were mostly black with almost red on their faces and fins - Tomato Anemone Fish we later found out. It was so good to back in the undersea world, recognising old friends and making new acquaintances. 

Talking of new friends, we found the island wasn’t actually occupied by just one family. There was also a dog and a large number of pigs, along with piglets ranging from tiny tiny squealers chasing after mum to medium size teenagers hanging out with their mates. They came down onto the beach and Jon made conversation with them a while until his piggy pronunciation went wrong and they took offence at something he’d said.

Back on Samarai it was the big market day so we went ashore to provision before we move on. We got watercress, cherry tomatoes, guavas, starfruit, banana, passion fruit, plantain, pumpkin leaves and oranges. All were very cheap, for example the passion fruit were about 5p each. We then stopped by the local store to stock up on a new discovery we’d made: Navy Biscuits, excellent with soup.