Hefty Interval

There is plenty of debate about how many dead blogs there are littering the world wide web - noone really knows - but having surpassed even my own miserable prediction of giving up this blogging business within 6 months, I have decided to try for resuscitation. A friend of mine who has been writing a blog that I really loved about life in these parts just left for pastures new, and she has inspired to get started again.

Here are a couple of snaps from Sierra Leone earlier this year. A Green Turtle had become stranded on Lumley Beach in Freetown. Construction is slowly swallowing up the breeding sites, meaning that these beautiful creatures ending up trying to lay their eggs in the middle of busy tourist beaches, as these are often the only clear stretches of sand left. This one was a heavy specimen, but a young chap made light work of flipping it on its back (cue: unimpressed reptile) and then safely placing her back down in the water.



The other is from a remote island in the South called Chepo, where lack of refrigeration means that fish are still preserved through smoking in (bloody hot!) straw huts.