8th June: Well where to start on what I've been up to? A couple of weeks a go I went over to curiese island which is off of Praslin, four of us and a few staff went and it has a high population of indigenous giant turtles, about 150 apparently although I didn't count them personally - the humans on the island number roughly 10 though so they are pretty outnumbered. We stayed in a lovely little cottage right on the beach with a large veranda which you could just laze about on and watch the sunset each day. It was a lot more relaxed than back on main base and although we were doing work each day in between invert surveying (worms, shells, urchins, and sea stars) and turtle snorkels it had a holiday atmosphere
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