This is going to sound really sad, but it is true, a lot of the time the stuff that we receive things wrapped up in over here is often as good if not better than the contents. Typical examples are for instance, items that come in small re-sealable bags, these are excellent as they are extremely versatile great for stopping mobile phone, alarm clock and MP3 player from getting wet and covered in salt. Or the there are padded envelopes or A5 envelopes, both seem to be very rare in Seychelles, or the card board from cereal packets, the cereal is awful here, but the cardboard gets used for all types of things, especially to make resources for school work, oh and of course small boxes, some friends sent some chocolates out recently – Ferrero Rocher, the contents were amazing, but the plastic container is great for freezing specimens in, like dead turtle hatchlings or moths.
But this Christmas it was the best yet, a volunteer who had just left after a 3 month stay here, sent through a parcel and it contained small net bags of Christmas chocolates, well whilst the chocolates were very nice indeed, the small net bags well... they managed to catch tea for the whole island tonight.
How? Melv made them into two fishing lures and each time we put them in the water pulling them behind the boat, we managed to catch fish on each – result. Melv has become a bit of a magpie like that, he collects all things shiny as potential fishing lures, whilst I often make fun of him, I can’t knock it after today’s success!
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