Josh Ickes

“There’s one or two objections,’ Mr Porter said. ‘One is the sharks. They’ll take you if you go out more than knee deep. Another is the alligators. Then there’s the stone fish – he lies on the beach and looks just like a stone until you tread on him, and he squirts about a pint of poison into you. The Portuguese Men-o’-War aren’t so good, either. But the thing that really puts me off is Coral Ear.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘A sort of growth inside your head that comes from getting this fine coral sand into your ear.’ Jean came to the conclusion that perhaps she wouldn’t bathe in Darwin after all.”
― Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice