one of the great joys

of having had the opportunity to be here is to have met a wide range of international experts and researchers. I wrote back in February about the Scandinavian I think it was Leather Back Turtle Researcher. His job was of educating the landowners in eco-tourism: to get them to protect the eggs of these monsters of the sea instead of eating them. He used the example of the situation in Thailand where there are THREE Leather Back Turtles left. In all of the South China Sea he said there were THREE left. My previous blog expressed my thoughts on loneliness. Can you imagine THREE turtles trying to find each other for companionship? What if there were THREE of us, - Tony, Shikha and Geoff left in all of PNG?
Man is not the only social species in the world. The plight of the Bengal and Siberian Tigers comes to mind. We need talk therapy. We need to talk to at least three people a day to reassure ourselves of our existence. Try being a hermit for three months with no prospect of things improving. What keeps the lone around the world sailors going is that there is a future. There is someone waiting at the end. At the end of a day's foraging, where is one of the THREE turtles going to find the other two in the South China Sea?