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07/07/2008: "BROWN SPOTTED COD ..... At Nor' West Island August 1963"
Wally Muller was a good whip-cracker on his workers, as we found out.
I missed the second three-day stint some days later while slowly dying from coral poisoning.
It was a tropical skin infection that went deep from either a fish handling wound or coral scratch on my leg. I assumed sea water would cleanse such a problem.
It didn't and got slowly worse to the stage where I could not stand on my feet due to pain. A few more days without treatment and I would have gone home in a box. Wally eventually returned after four days away and had sulfur tablets aboard. Not the best things for kidney's though.
