Vanuatu

First things A couple updates from my previous post .  Remember those two turtles?  Well, Sima told Terry to let the little one go, because it was just too little.  (Terry didn't catch the turtles, I don't know who did.)  I missed that release, unfortunately.  But then a couple days later the larger one was still sitting around.  I thought it was dead, but evidently you can just set a sea turtle on its back and it will survive for weeks, as long as it is not in the sun.  Terry gets tired of people doing this.  I guess many times someone catches a turtle then it just sits around, and Terry puts it back in the ocean.  So he did the same thing with the other turtle.  Well, he flipped it over anyway so it could walk back.  The big ones are heavy.  Both went back to the ocean. How old is this turtle?  Don't know.  There isn't a visual way to age a green sea turtle.  What sex is it?  Don't know that either....

Tue, Aug 8, 2017 I finally made it to site, Tassiriki Village on Moso Island.  The island is only about 25 sq. km. and is off the northwest coast of Efate.   Two villages, Tassiriki and Sunae, as well as two resorts, The Moso and Tranquility, are on Moso Island. Fewer than 300 people live here, and about 100 children attend the K-6 school.  While the island does appear on Google Maps, my village doesn't. I live in a house which is very close to the water, maybe 30 feet.  There is a lot of foot traffic around my house because boats are used to go anywhere and I'm right by where the boats come in. This is pretty much the view from my front door.  Mangroves protect the coast, except in several places where they have been cut away to allow boats in.  The slope to the sea is gentle.   You can wade  out a hundred+ feet in waist deep water, all on sand. Thu, Aug 10 First day in the garden.  We bagged charcoal and planted some bananas. ...