Bel Ombre, Seychelles Islands Travel Blogs

The Seychelles. Neither tomatoes nor onions.
Nov 4, 2007 (12 photos)

... , of course. It is also the town where the diving shop is, where we start our diving tomorrow. On their website it says that Bel ombre, where we are, is half an hour away from them. They are in Beau Vallon. Hmmmmm. We start walking to Beau Vallon. ...

Moving WITHIN the Seychelles
Nov 10, 2007 (12 photos)

Moving WITHIN the Seychelles We are ready 20 minutes early, Debra (like zebra ...) is 20 minutes late. Dr T finds a little spider, the same as in Cape Tribulation in East Australia (remember girls?) We learn that a motor of one of the diving boats ...

Whose idea was this???
Nov 14, 2007 (3 photos)

Today the sun is shining when we get up. The boat is full of ... French. If there is something more annoying than Germans, it is the French. And the East bloc. I do not sound very tolerant, do I? The second dive is only Mark. Linda, us and the diving ...

Thank you, Mark and Linda
Nov 15, 2007 (21 photos)

Diving picutes, thanks to Mark and Linda ...

The cranky dive mistress, my friend
Nov 11, 2007 (3 photos)

Liliane wears a 'Swiss' bikini today. I told her, I mistook her for a Germans the first day, because she wore a German bikini. Her answer: do not say that, I do NOT like the Germans'. I hope my friend Michael can understand I agree with the attitude of ...

Floating tank spotted in the Indian Ocean: twice !
Nov 6, 2007 (6 photos)

... she books. The bad news for her: no we are not taking her offer for (another) dodgy bungalow on one of the other islands of the Seychelles, but move into a nice resort IN Beau Vallon. Almost next to our dive shop. The car will be delivered at 9 tomorrow ...

Visitors in the Seychelles
Nov 12, 2007 (3 photos)

... lovely people. I carefully tell people we dove like, half of the world. They can tell that they dove the world. I have the feeling, we did not even hear a little part of the stories, when they leave. Tomorrow, our final day of diving in the Seychelles.

Whale shark alert in Mahé
Nov 5, 2007 (6 photos)

We get pick up by the same cranky girl. Dr T thinks she is a local, I think she is German. She wore a German bikini yesterday! And today she is even our dive master ... . Her name is Liliane. The dive center is to our taste, though, the owner a very ...

Beau Vallon, Mahe
Sep 3, 2008

Anse Lazio, Prasllin -> Beau Vallon, Mahe' Today we leave the northern island group behind. With southeast trade winds blowing steady between 15-18k you can’t ask for a better beam reach as we head off southwest to explore the northwest side of ...