“So,” I clutched my army jacket at my neck, “how does it feel to be a hundred-thousand-dollaraire?”

The reef barrier does not have a simple reef-rubble slope on the platformward side.

Images of devils, jab molasie, moko jumbies and bats are the figures that inhabit the Caribbean night. These dark fantasies are allowed free reign to bring into being darker, secret fears. The Carnival allows the opportunity for all these aspects of life to be given visual form.

There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.