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Also, the way I swim leaves my back and my lower legs sticking out of the (I believe UV-opaque) water much of the time. I will have to sleep on my front for some time.
On the other hand, FISH! The common one has a blue head and a vulgarly yellow body with black stripes; larger lurid blue ones with reddish patterned heads swim with them, one or two to a school; tiny sand-coloured fish swarm in if you drop food just on the shore-line; if you move a rock a bright-yellow fish about 30cm long covered in black spots sometimes swims out from under it. Little white crabs run around on the sand, looking like the shadows of blowing thistledown. The fish played by Ellen DesGeneres in Finding Nemo turns up from time to time; I saw no Nemo but some people in the group did.
On a third, rather less cheerful hand, the evidence of the tsunami is everywhere: there's a thick stratum of shattered shells and coral about six inches down in the beach sand, most of the reef-like structures have only a few live corals growing on a great lump of white limestone, and every so often the large boulder you see at the bottom clearly has reinforcing-rods in it. I wouldn't eat the crabs here, and admit to thinking at several of the islands that we boated to 'OK, the beach is low-lying, higher land is impenetrable jungle behind unclimbable cliffs, if there's another tsunami now we're all dead'. Thankfully tsunami are rare; though I have a horrible feeling that one of the standard home-videos of the tsunami was shot not very far from the hotel I'm in. Unless, of course, the architectural style is absolutely consistent right down the Andaman coast; which is entirely plausible.
On the other hand, FISH! The common one has a blue head and a vulgarly yellow body with black stripes; larger lurid blue ones with reddish patterned heads swim with them, one or two to a school; tiny sand-coloured fish swarm in if you drop food just on the shore-line; if you move a rock a bright-yellow fish about 30cm long covered in black spots sometimes swims out from under it. Little white crabs run around on the sand, looking like the shadows of blowing thistledown. The fish played by Ellen DesGeneres in Finding Nemo turns up from time to time; I saw no Nemo but some people in the group did.
On a third, rather less cheerful hand, the evidence of the tsunami is everywhere: there's a thick stratum of shattered shells and coral about six inches down in the beach sand, most of the reef-like structures have only a few live corals growing on a great lump of white limestone, and every so often the large boulder you see at the bottom clearly has reinforcing-rods in it. I wouldn't eat the crabs here, and admit to thinking at several of the islands that we boated to 'OK, the beach is low-lying, higher land is impenetrable jungle behind unclimbable cliffs, if there's another tsunami now we're all dead'. Thankfully tsunami are rare; though I have a horrible feeling that one of the standard home-videos of the tsunami was shot not very far from the hotel I'm in. Unless, of course, the architectural style is absolutely consistent right down the Andaman coast; which is entirely plausible.
