We had BBQ lunch on island hopping and white wine from the island bar. Also went snorkelling around another island.
In the hostel there were a couple of resident doggies, and you know what we're like about dogs.
Loads of wild dogs on the island. People often gave scrpas to the dogs around the hostel.
"Lazy" was the main hostel mascot.. Famous for her bandy front legs, which made her walk like a crocodile...she appeared in the hostel quiz questions and we invented a dance after her. She was also very pregnant as were all the females on the island at this time. Another was "Ginger" who reminded us of Santas little helper...she was the first to have puppies, under the decking. We all fed her under the decking while the puppies fed and we nurtured the puppies as they grew bigger and bigger and ofcourse named them all. Then Lazy had hers under the other end of the decking, but far out of reach. A couple of her pups died.
Then further tradegy stuck one evening. The resort had put poison down to kill any stray dogs. Unfortunately Ginger had eaten some and died on the beach. The next morning all her puppies were taken to the mainland by the hostel manager and luckily found homes.
Then a few days later the same happened to Lazy, but her puppies were too young, so they were burried with her. It was so heartbreaking..so sad. We missed them both terribly.
Andy was the other hostel dog and her puppies came after, so we started feeding her and keeping check on the puppies. The father of many of these pups was a stray dog we named "Demon" He loved to play and bite playfully. Did get kicked a few times by the locals too. anyway, enough about dogs...