South Africans love a braai and our friend Oloff has invited us to one on his boat Ongemaak. We first met Oloff with his brother Muir and their girlfriends in St Helena six years ago. Oloff and Muir built the 10m aluminium Ongemaak in a shed on their farm in S Africa and we've been bumping into him, not literally, as our paths have crossed.
Tonight's barbecue comes after a week which has seen us hanging out, chilling, diving and snorkelling at our uninhabited island. David has caught more fish for Polly and a couple of good groupers for us. He came up with an ingenious multi-pronged spear made from the bars of a old oven tray to catch lion fish which I had to carry. Being longer than I am tall I gave it the name of Bengal Lancer and it was as effective as a blunt cocktail stick stabbing an olive. When he went in to kill a large lion fish we found all it did was push it further into the hole it was hiding in. If you aren't aware, lion fish are an invasive species in the Caribbean that have voracious appetites for reef fish and no natural prey. You are encouraged to catch and kill them though their poisonous spines make them tricky. The meat is white and sweet.
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