February 15
After 6 weeks of rice and beans, a cyclone, strenuous acticity, social drama, and fantastic diving, we return to "modern Tulear" in the middle of political strife and projected internal turmoil in Madagascar. In Andavadoaka you hardly knew the outside world existed. Some photos: (Trying to upload but may not be able. Very slow connection)
This is the picture of the "pirate ship" at least it was in my mind. I came across it while walking thru the spiny forest. Over a sand dune and ther it was...unloading a group of men into canoes to go to shore. I felt I should hide in the bushes so they coul not catch me and enslave me...
Anyway I got in some 60 dives at various reefs around Andavadoaka. I tested and passed certification to do fish belts and benthic PIT's. Fish belts are where you lay a 20 metre tape on a section of reef then leqve for 5 minutes. After return you swim the tape and count type all the fish 5 metre wide by 5 metre high along the tape. Usually from 10 to 30 species and 25 to hundreds of fish. Takes about ten minutes to do a belt. Try to a
ccomplish two per dive.
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