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My dear readers,<br /><br />It has become more and more difficult for me to adjust to settled life after the nomadic life of a traveler. Travel is addictive! I survive only with help of my non-prescription medicine, which I take on a daily basis: seventeen table spoons, at bed time with food. What medicine, you may ask? Here is the chemical formula of it: 40% solution of C2H5-OH in H2O.

SE Asia 2004 (part I)

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-22 19:06:55

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other tourists. It is two "resorts" on the Northern part of island. I stay in "Paradise Resort" for $5 per night. Southern part of island is uninhabited, as I learned it next day and it was really close to my dream.

The island is small and it can be circled by swimming. This is what I did, one day swimming clockwise the other day counter clockwise around the island. I started to swim right from my bungalow, which you can see in attachment. I took with me a knife, a lighter in plastic bag, bottle of water and my large stainless steel mug for making fish soup. And of course mask, fins and shorkel. This time I took with me a folding sling, a sort of primitive underwater gun, actually a stick with piece of ribbon attached to one end and three prong spear to the other end. Sea floor is incredibly beautiful here, many corals, mostly young, different shapes and colors, sea urchins sitting on the bottom as an out of space ships with their bright navigation lights (eyes) arranged in sophisticated geometrical pattern on their back, and many tridaknas. Tridaknas bury themselves in the ocean floor so they cannot be removed easily. They keep halves of their shells open and you can see the incredibly bright colored mantle, emerald green, deep blue, bright red, all possible and impossible colors.

Southern shore of the island is uninhabited except for two half abandoned fisherman bungalows. It is mostly rocky shore with few small bays surrounded by picturious rocks and it has several mysterious caves with pirates' gold. Top of the rocks covered by tropical forest, sometimes going down to the water. I started my swim in the sunrise and returned in the evening. All my body get covered with small wounds and sores from sea urchin needles, from fairy corals, from stinging micro organisms floating in the sea and from sunburns. I did not take any food with me. I eat the sea shells raw. It taste like sushi. Next time I will take a soy sauce. I also killed ...