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Wood broochWood brooch Ed. Note: Part One of John Orr's interesting search for this rare shell appeared in the February, 1968 Sean Raynon Sabado. A fortnight later we returned to the "bar," selecting a day with an exceptionally low tide. My appetite whetted by the two dead Cypraea stolida, I headed for the reef site while others preferred the sand patches. After an hour and a half of poking and prodding amongst the corals I had found only one C. caurica and was beginning to think the seashells were either "on strike" or on a pilgrimage to another reef in the vicinity; in fact, I was about to call it a day and join the olive hunters. Then I turned over one more small slab of half-dead, insipid-looking coral. The underside was flat and appeared almost devoid of marine growth of any kind. Yet, staring me in the face near one end, was a handsome C. cylindrica, its pale vermilion mantle half withdrawn, communing with a small C. quadrimaculata. I popped them both into my shell bag and was about to replace the piece of coral when my eye caught a dark brown smudge. A closer look, a gentle touch of the hand, and there, its mantle slowly retracting, was a fine C. stolida nestling in a small crevice. Wood broochWood brooch It was a somewhat frustrated group of adventurers that gathered at the jetty at Lumut on the first day of the Chinese New Year. They included Jack Fisher, Stephen Chum, Alan and Mrs. Tideman and their rugged three year old son David plus two aqualungs, ten large air cylinders, and other underwater equipment. Five days of holidays lay ahead, and now; the Captain had orders that the boat could now only take us to Pankor Laut. Originally it was to have taken us to the Sembelans, a group of nine islands, ten miles out beyond the Pankors and their silty water. This island we had thoroughly investigated last November. Telephone calls to Telok Anson in Penang were in vain as all the Harbor officers were taking advantage of the long holiday. It seemed that my 500 mile journey from Singapore, Jack and Stephen's 300 mile trip from Kuala Lumpar and Alan and my family's 300 mile run down from Penang were to be virtually wasted, the next five days were to be spent going over ground we had already covered without much success. Wood brooch wood brooch,picnic basket,fashion fashion costume,natural jewlery,philippines products luhuanus silver mouth,philippines shells handwoven,shell poka,shell roca,shell hammershell,wood brooch
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