[This is my last post about our Australia journey.:]

After the dive trip, they dropped us on Lizard Island, a largely deserted spot that has an airstrip, a small and posh $1000-a-night resort, and a $10-a-night campground. The first European to live on Lizard Island was a guy called Watson who was trying to make a living by harvesting "beche de mer" or sea cucumbers, to be sold to the Chinese trade. Any edible thing that's shaped at all like a penis has always been culinary gold in the far...