Woke up in much more pain than usual around the left ribcage. I've been taking the tramadol tablets the Indian doctor prescribed night and morning, but am running out and skipped last night's dose. I took two paracodols during the night instead, but they obviously weren't as effective.
After breakfast felt a bit better and managed to photograph the reef edge before pain drove me back to bed. Christine suggested taking some of the aspirin we have with us as well, and half an hour after taking two tablets the pain just vanished and didn't return all day.
We spent all the rest of the morning snorkelling. There was a small rain shower but we were in the sea and it was warm anyway. So many fish of such variety, not to mention the corals.
Instead of lunch we settled for mocktails, then as the tide was high and the wind on our side of the island was making the water rough, we set about exploring the other parts of the beach.
The leeward end of the island, probably all of 200 metres away, was calm but the waters weren't as clear. However as we sat at the waters edge, a curious stingray investigated our toes and allowed me to photograph him. Egrets were perched on a nearby breakwater scanning a shoal of myriads of little fish like a dark swirling shadow in the water beneath, sometimes skittering across the water's surface when a predatory fish darted amongst them.
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