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Wild life

Wild life

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

Indian Ocean coast

Like most men I wonder if I have been much good as a father, but one thing I got right was that I gave our children, Eve and Rider, the Indian Ocean. Before they could even walk my Claire taught her babies to feel happy splashing about in the sandy coral pools below my mother’s house, and this was where she taught them first to swim.

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