a large donut lying on its side in the Blue Pacific, its edge a broad belt of off-white coral sand its rim a bright scovola green, low & lush grassy abruptly to sand and clumps of bunch grass, to bunch grass and a narrow dune, covered of Iponoea, to a brackish lagoon. Against the blue sky, rock marked with out of focus white clouds is dotted with black Great Frigatebirds and white Booby Red-tailed Tropic bird and black & white Red-footed and Blue-footed Boobies In the evening the air is filled with the scents of Weedy Sea Shearwaters and Bonin Island Petrels - Blue & Common Noddy Terns are everywhere but, since its October, only a few Sooty Terns can be seen overhead. Sooty white Terns follow you about while Paper Turtles dart from beneath your feet. as you walk from the beach to the lagoon - in the shade of this large pond are found hundreds of Redleg Tarantulas