Watching Gobies Go By

Of course these sharks are not going anywhere.

They swim this way and that.

Turning often, because of the reinforced glass.

They have long ago stopped looking through it.

If they did, they would see Gaius and Terence, friends of Sweezus and Arthur, who are felons, in the shark world.

Felons who owe money to the Great White Teacher.

For the seaweed delivery.

And the sushi venture, which failed.

I'm off to look at the coral, says Gaius. Coming?

Not yet, says Terence. I'm watching the sharks.

Me too, says Rusty.

I'll stay here with them, says Jean-Claude. We'll find you in ten minutes, at the coral.

Gaius heads to the coral.

Will there be information on Australia's Great Barrier Reef?

There is. It is endangered. The coral is dying. The small fish who help to keep it healthy are harder to find.

But there are healthy and colourful corals in the aquarium. And little gobies are flitting back and forth, keeping it so.

Perhaps I should return to Australia, says Gaius. Go to Queensland. I wonder what the quarantine situation is now?

He is fiddling with his smart phone trying to find out, when the Head of Slugs appears beside him.

You were right, it's an atroviridis! All the way from Japan!

He has the Japanese atroviridis on a saucer.

The question is, how did it get here?

I have no idea! says Gaius. But it was found on the beach below the Phare du Portzic, by an oystercatcher.

Interesting, says the Head of Slugs. Do you know which one?

No, says Gaius, but I'm meeting it later today when the tide's out. It promised me others.

Where do you get those jellies? asks a young mother, who is showing her daughter the coral.

It's not a jelly, says the Head of Slugs. It's a very special sea slug.

Oh ha ha! laughs the young mother. I thought it was a too good to be true. You should get a confectioner onto it. You could sell them. Look Chloe!

Chloe is only three. She has been looking at coral, and cute tiny fish. 

Now she looks at the sea slug and thinks it's a jelly. She likes jelly.

She grabs it, with her hard little fingers.