Day 365 - You learn something new every day

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Remembering this time last year, we did not don our wedding outfits and hope The Leo Green Experience would turn up at the pool side to while away the afternoon. Instead we went on a morning excursion to the south part of the island, visiting places like the pearl farm that 'makes' pearls for the Australian market. Both of us learnt something new today about how the pearl is made - "a skilled technician implants a nucleus from a Mississippi pig toe mussel". Then we went to the most southerly tip of the island to the island's second town - ‘Coconut town’. There is also a prison here, named 'Coconut Prison’ even though there is not a coconut in sight, which had some very strong coconut walls that kept in 40,000 prisoners in its heyday.

Next we visited the nicest beach on the island Soa Beach, with white sands and calm waters, and we had a swim. Moving on at a fierce pace we took in a fishing village, a waterfall and also a very smelly fish sauce factory. And to round off the morning we learnt more about the pepper plant and just how lucrative they can be.

The afternoon and evening were spent relaxing, reading and preparing - Beware.

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