Tuesday 21 October 2008

Sea turtles

One of the advantages of Monrovia having such a messed-up port is that traffic and pollution from ships is minimal, so there are plenty of brightly-coloured fish, and even small sharks and sea turtles (which are beautiful creatures). Noah and I watched one from our cabin window, basking in the sunshine, on Saturday morning - he had a smile on his face, and didn't seem to be in a hurry to go anywhere. So I was very sad to find that the men on the Blue Atlantic had caught a big turtle with a hook yesterday, and were leaving it to die slowly in the sun on the scalding hot deck. They were looking forward to turtle soup and rice that evening. It's such a shame that just about everything beautiful in Liberia gets killed and eaten. Olly

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