Monday, July 16, 2007

Dugongs and magic rocks

Lately our adventures have been about dugong's, which are like salt water manatees or sea cows, and magic rocks which the locals think have powers. When we were at Epi we learned about the dugong and how sometimes he came to the bay. They are supposed to be very friendly and come up to you to get their tummy rubbed. When we saw it from our boat it looked like a baby whale. It turns out that it has a whale tail and yet looks very different. We could see it so well that we hopped in the dinghy
and rowed over. We kept following it until we dove in to swim with it. We were able to see it well in the water and we kept following it as fast as we could. But we still couldn't keep up with it even though it looked like the laziest thing in the world. Then we left Epi and headed to Malakula. There are Magic rocks there that are supposed to make storms when you strike together make storms occur. The magic rocks are just Quarts and they actually make a blue flash when you strike them together.
Even though there wasn't a storm its till was very interesting how they made a spark.

Tristan

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