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WE ARE LEAVING NEW CALEDONIA AND ARE HEADING TOWARD FIJI

I am adding this quite late for a good reason.   As I predicted in my  blog of March 16 , watch  Caitlin Clark  of Iowa.   Well, she only scored 41 points, with 8 assists and 6 rebounds, in an incredible upset of heavily favored South Carolina.  Maybe the best single performance in the history of the Big Dance, women's or men's.   Iowa faces my team, LSU, which got trounced by South Carolina last month.  That's Angel Reese, for these two might be the best women playing at the college level this year. Why I'm adding this now is that my next blog will be published after that Iowa-LSU game is over, which begins at 7:30AM Fiji time tomorrow, but at 3:30PM EDT on Sunday in the U.S.   How to watch?  Click on this.    We left the Coral Sea and are now in the South Pacific Ocean.  Amazing that I am able to send this with nothing in sight around us for hundreds of miles. I also said that if you wanted a long shot on the men's side, pick San Diego State.   They will play Conn

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

The  Great Barrier Reef  is the world's largest coral reef system, with more than 2900 individual reefs and including 900 islands stretching more than 1400 miles.   Is said to be the largest single structure made by living organisms, and is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. There are 400 species of coral growing. Is 12 times larger than the state of Hawaii, just smaller than Montana and the size of 70 million football fields. Located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland. But, ah, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985.  And the 2020 bleaching even will even more reduce this wonder.  Why?  Global warming. But recovery is possible. Reefs can increase in diameter by up to 2 inches per year, and vertically almost 10 inches/year. But only down to a depth of 500 feet (needs sunlight), and not above sea level. A bleached reef is not dead, and can recover. Corals only spawn once/year, in the October/November period, and unfolds over a few