Seasick?

The wild areas around here are spectacular. We did a Beagle channel cruise

on the tiniest boat available (10 passengers). It has its own pier on an island. It has lots of Tundra type flora. Large, solid (sit on them) moss balls.

The last native of the island is a woman aged 85. She has just been admitted to hospital and expected to die soon. Our guide was upset. The natives were perfectly adapted to their environment, but once the western plunderers arrived it took only 30 years for their lifestyle to become unsustainable due to:
· loss of seals, the fat from which they used to keep their otherwise naked bodies warm
· the introduction of alcohol and tobacco which was too much of a shock to their highly adapted bodies

We saw lots of seals and cormorants etc.

But the headline news was that for the first time ever on a boat Tricia did not feed the wildlife with everything she had eaten that day.