Georgie should be renamed. He should
now be known as “curious George”. As soon as he saw the Triton horn being blown, he asked Momma to do some translating. So Momma asked one of the staff if she could teach Georgie how to blow the Triton. Moe (short for Moeana) taught Georgie how, and he took to it like a natural. From then on, if Georgie was at the kitchen in time, they both blew the two horns to summon us for meals.
Blowing the Triton horn is like blowing a trumpet. You purse your lips, make them vibrate
and breath out slowly. Then voila! you get a deep, rich, mahogany sound. I could only get the sound sporadically, Georgie got it every time.
Today is a non-pass day. We were driven to a beach that we could see far off in the distance. Eric said we he would come back to get us in two hours. We hoped he would have the sense that if it started raining he would come back earlier to pick it up. Stranded! But we had our swim stuff so we spent the afternoon snorkeling. We struck gold immediately when we saw a meter-long octopus when it was fully extended. Then later, we saw two more octopi. They looked like they were on a date, holding hands and everything. One of them was bright red, while the other looked like a piece of coral. Maybe it was shy.
Where there aren’t that many species of fish, my eyes turn to the coral formations and other brightly coloured things. My favorite isn’t actually coral, but a clam. They are called Tridacna – the “Giant Clams” of legend. 
All you can see of them is the irridescent rippled edges of their shell sticking out of the coral. In between the two halves of the shells are the clam’s lips. Their lips come in the most outlandish colors. There are mottled green and purple ones, blue an purple, blue and green. They live in dead corals too, so I was guaranteed to see splashes of coral whenever I stuck my mask beneath the water. 
The pictures of Tridacna you see here aren’t ours: we don’t have an underwater camera. They are from the internet: http://www.aquasearch.net.au/aqua/clamculture.htm. The green clam is from http://www.saltwaterearth.com/welcome/ index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_20.
When I dove down to take a closer look at the clams they could sense movement. The first step was for them to suck their lips in, but you could still see them, and for the shell to close slightly. If I got closer still, the lips would get drawn completely in and the shell would close more so nothing could pass through.
