This may be the world's most adorable sleeping Monk Seal - how he, and a colleague, manage to do this after a heavy night's fishing on a beach where they're being ogled by tourists beats me. My multiple hats go off to all the volunteers who rope off the part of the beach on which they take their naps, and patiently, patiently answer questions about their wellbeing, habits, weight, lifespan, and so on.
Most of our walking today wasn't by the sea, though, but inland:
beautiful countryside, and with some excellent horses that suddenly emerged on the trail.
There were a couple of fish ponds - intended for prawns (that failed to grow) in the 1970s, and subsequently given over to tilapia;
the US's largest mahogany plantation;
amazing vistas (with taro plantations);
and yes, lots more lichen.
And at the end of the day, beach -with the same sleeping seal, and a new arrival in the form of a really giant sea turtle.
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