Back in civilisation. Connections start being made again. Little bits of information flying around the world. SMS, email.

What’s it like living on an island with 11 to 22 fish huggers? Hard to say, but it involves baking bread, burning stuff, chopping down trees (well it’s not a terrestrial conservation project is it, and I’m sure the terrestrial expeditions use the sea as a big dustbin), and looking at coral, fishes and slime. And learning to love the taste of donkey vodka and warm sprite.

Did it do anyone other than me any good? It’s not like a TrekForce project where you have tangible outputs like roads and holes. We collect data, and true, we do try to change things (teaching English in a local school is the most satisfying example of that). But the data is big and dirty. And in an Access database….