Poor girl.

This is great

I'm liking this little story!

Be glad she did not step on a rock fish. Their spines hurt BAD!

I see fish come in bite size.

Most pacific islands, like the atoll in your story, usually have a constant breeze. When the breeze stops it is a good indication of a storm brewing... like a typhoon. I know. Been there, done that. (including the fishing.)

Its a bit more miserable than that. The middle and western regions of the Great Ocean is very shallow, as that area is a drowned continental mass, so the weather is very steamy. The island is towards the edge of it, but the prevailing winds are of the desert-inducing type, so while there is moisture, there isn't the right convection processes for rain to go with it.

arent those shrimps edible? :P

Maybe, but they're also very spiney, grabby and therefore scary to a new survivalist, especially after the eels spooked her.

*snikers, remembering dealing with crawfish as a kid*

Now she's in hell for what she is .

Having mangled my feet on Coral...I sympathise.

When I went to Hawai'i for my first duty station, I was already well into wearing dive boots for *all* of my water adventures. Unless I'm on sandy beach, I pretty much refuse to go into any natural body of water without *something* on my feet, for this very reason.

As for the salt itch, you *can* avoid that if you dry off quickly? But as you point out, this is an equatorial climate, so getting dry isn't going to happen quickly.

Let's hope she manages to avoid ciguatera poisoning.

i like where this is going and i realy like the style

Another event montage?

The life aquatic is not fun. Sympathies.

Yes, one can survive with the proper survival training a short time. Longer term survival is more difficult. Especially on a small coral atoll.

aww shucks.

LOL!!! After so many pages of being realistic and serious, the sudden appearance of cartoon effects was unexpected and more effective. And then you make me feel sorry for laughing with everything after that...

…I've never heard of salt water itch…. *lives in the caribbean*

The poor girl…hunger'll make her braver…as for the coral…ouch...

Sadly, not Danni's best day. Must be a country or city girl; if she grew up on the shore, she's be used to the sea bugs. Don't Bogart that joint, my friend... Well, she's got lots of concrete for grinding; extra / damaged rifle cleaning rods make satisfactory skewers when sharpened. Leaves the fish-kebab tasting... brassy, though.

The perspectives in these panels are clever; each frame from a different angle.

Very much an in-land townie in a much more moderate clime.

"Bitey Bitey" had me laughing out loud.

I enjoyed your illustration of how living "close to nature" ... kinda sucks. :D