Digging in the Maldives afterglow

 
sunrise Wednesday over the East Beach Cafe

I had a good trip back by BA on Saturday, landing at Gatwick 6:10pm, 11 hours after taking off. I arrived at the flat around 8:30pm. Roger had arrived for one night so it was good to catch up with him over a couple of bottles Chianti. We had lunch the following day at the George & Dragon at Houghton.

These are Bandos Island land shots from the last day:

 My Beach Villa

fish in middle of jetty

Bougainvillea

Indian Myna bird

dive boat dock

sailing centre

main jetty

harbour

Thanks to Lewis for the following shots which show various members of our group on land and underwater:

Tricia and Cody, Peter

Moi

Hassan, head of diving operation

Lewis

Peter

Chris from Germany, Peter and me

Adel, Tricia, Cody and Sydney

Chris, Peter, Cody & Tricia,

Me and Peter stuying manifest

Hassan and shoal at end of dive

On Sunday afternoon  I attended a club dig on pasture near Steyning and found a William III halfpenny in poor condition but with enough detail to identify. These coins were notable for the low grade copper alloy and most suffer severe corrosion. I also found an 1857 Victoria gaming token and a strange suspension hoop.

William III ((1694-1702)) halfpenny. 

above Obverse: Kings bust, laureate and draped, facing right. GVLIELMVS - (TERT)I(VS)
below Reverse: Britannia seated right with raised hand. BRITAN - NIA.

Victoria gaming token dated 1857 above and below.

 

The weather has turned icy cold and the forecasts say we are in for a freezing night. In compensation we had a lovely sunrise this morning: