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And so this is Christmas

MY FIRST LESSON IN DE-HUSKING a coconut is brutal. There’s a lot of sweat, mixed with swearing, that eventually crescendos into cool, sweet coconut water running down my chin. However, I didn’t anticipate the bone-crushing claws of the world’s largest crustacean to lumber out of the jungle towards me.

Swaddled in a-style jungle canopy, and now surrounded by giant robber crabs drawn to the smell of their favourite food – coconut – I am

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