Monday 21 jan 2019 Andaman Islands

First thank you all for your comments. It is great to hear whats going on. As usual our phones don't  work.Today we were at Port Blair which is the big indian naval base. It is nearer to Thailand than India. Great defence location if India is attacked!!
Our morning outing was around the town.We had the rattiest bus on the planet. It was like  Fiji bus except that there was glass in the windows not blinds. On the front it said "LUXURY COACH" and on the side it said INCREDIBLE !NDIA. Despite the fancy paint job the seat size and low roof said recently use by schools. Ours was only the second worst bus. The bus used by the yellow group crashed into a fence(breaks failed?). It was the worst! Seat belts were not a problem.
We saw the Naval Marine Museum which had a great display of things in the sea in this area. There were beautiful shells, corals, fish and  a blue whale skeleton well displayed and interesting.
Then on to the Anthropological museum which is all about the aboriginal people on the remote islands. Remember in the news recently there was a story about an american man wanting to convert a remote tribe to Christianity who landed illegally on an island and was shot dead with arrows by the natives. That was here in these
very islands.
 Our  last visit  was to a prison called the cellular prison. It was so cruel that it makes the convict system in Australia look benign. Look it up if you want to know more.  The British used it to incarcerate people who opposed their rule and it now a national monument and a sort of sacred site for Indians.
We went to the fruit market and bought things that looked like unwashed potatos. They were fruit called chiko-chiko. They were sweet and delicious and may be related to custard apple. The seeds were the same and the flavour similar.
We are now heading for Thailand. Love to all Mum.