ANOTHER SICK BAY

Typical John to post that we were just feeling a little off when in fact we have not been able to move from the toilet for nearly three days!  Moira managed to ride a bike to the chemist between bouts this morning to get us some more Dioralyte - interestingly it comes in one litre packets here rather than the piddly little packets they give you at home - we have thrown cares to the wind, stopped taking the anti-malarials and have started the stomach antibiotics - hoping these will kick in to give us a respite before we come home or at least that we will feel strong enough to pack our bags before we have to leave.  We haven't even seen the sea for two days - though it is only down the road - hope we'll be feeling better soon.

The monocular we brought has been a godsend because we have spent quite a few hours on our balconies watching the water birds in front of our rooms in the marshes - we have our own squacco heron as well as numerous other herons and storks as well as dippers and brown eagles and several kingfishers.  It's interesting to see how the bird-scape completely changes at different times of day and how the mother sow and her piglets wallow in the mud.  We also hear regular blood-curdling squeals in the night in the wild area beside us and we have no idea what is causing it - we do know that there is a real issue here with packs of hungry wild dogs who at the end of the tourist season do not get enough to eat and hunt around in packs - apparently they often go for the little piglets and there are also some packs of wild jackals about... one of our inmates here had been attacked by 4 dogs- that is the reason the locals go down to the beach armed with a wooden club!