Thank you!

Just wanted to post a quick thank you for the comments people have been leaving. I'm glad you are enjoying reading about my adventures! I'm certainly enjoying having them. Although I am looking forward to some of the comforts of home when I get back, like a hot bath and seeing my dog!

An update on the dolphin encounter of two days ago. It turns out they were not bottle-nosed dolphins after all. some zoologist huh! but hey I have spent most of my time studying primates! Apparently they were rough-toothed dolphins. Not one I have heard of before but I have a dolphin book back home so can look them up when I get back.

Also we are wondering whether, despite his playful behaviour, he might have been distracting us from the main group which contained some youngsters. It is a pretty good theory. A long time ago a small boy fell into the gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo. The famous silverback of the group, Jambo, went over and appeared (to the onlooking crowd) to be protecting the boy from the rest of the group. Richard Johnston-Scott, the long-time keeper-scientist with the gorillas at Jersey wrote a book about Jambo and in it he describes how he thinks it was more likely that Jambo was in fact protecting his group from the strange creature that had fallen into their territory.

I went snorkelling around the Cafe Mariposa again yesterday afternoon and took a bunch of photos. They won't look very good because they need messing with when I get back home but I will put them online anyway. Picked up another 6 plastic cups and a plastic plate. God I hate plastic! Great snorkelling though. Saw a big fish, maybe a foot and a half to two feet long. Looked it up and it was called a Permit! They do give fish some strange names!

Oh I forgot to say, in case you haven't discovered it yet, if you click on the pictures in the slideshow it will take you to the online album where the pics are bigger and I've managed to stick in some basic captions. If I am repeating myself I do apologise! Well I'd better go and start uploading the 90 odd pics I had on my camera, then I'm off to the boat. Fingers crossed for another amazing trip!

Adios!