One of the two springs that were home to the gambusia had dried out in the 1950s ... and plenty of threats to their existence remain to this day. But the plucky little fish have benefited from the ...

Luckily for the fish and myself there's still very little water remaining in the hidden tunnels of the culverts!

you’ll find bamboo trays loaded with dried scallops, bottles heaving with large gossamer sheaths of fish maw; sharply rotund, plump abalone in plastic casings as well as tiny little dried shrimp ...