bwahaha!! tan you are such a craven wormling, scared of a few small leeches and snakes. pah, i say and chah for good messure.

thanks for the e-mail mama, if you are looking for something to do you could have a crack at cleaning the shelves in my room and chucking away all the small clothes i will never wear again. that should acupy you for at least a month. a more fun thing wopuld be to do a spot of painting!

the pics: top: annika on the right, caroline on the far right, dipti on the left and our vast catch of fish in the centre. now that you mention it dipti’s shorts did remind me of something.

mid top: thrane isrealis. hanet in the center is the one i know quite well, she was very nice. that is the jolly coke machine at hone heke and beyond is the microscopic kitchen.

mid bottom: aha! guto, the funiest brazilian i have ever met. his classy turn of frase endeared him to one and all.

bottom: from left to right takoya of beach misadventure fame, sam son of shane, and some guy i don’t recall the name of.

still in napier, quite a nice town, almost as nice as nelson in fact. yesterday we did very little, and in fact we haven’t done much today iether, which is all to the good.

julio