Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Beach Resort And Casino Victoria

... Arms in downtown Victoria, a long stop at the Botanical Gardens being amazed by the size and aggressiveness of the fruit bats and beauty of the tropical flowers, a long drive to Intendance Beach home to the exclusive Banyan Tree Resort, and a final meal at Vye Marmit’ in the Val des Prés craft ...

... the reef, we abandoned our attempt figuring we had our sea legs about us and could deal with one more night of roll, after all, we’ll be spending the next year on terra firma.

With sundowner in hand, we bid adieu to our final sunset on Monkey Puzzle.

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... tips.

After lunch, we continue on, sailing to our night stop at Port Launay. We get the anchor in just to port of the cross marketing the reef on the western side of the bay and jump in for an evening snorkel. This time we snorkeled all the way to the beach, then back along the cliffs on the eastern side of the bay. The light was pretty low, but, we ...

... shop on the beach. Unfortunately, we arrived about an hour too late to take the afternoon dive. After buying ice at the bar, we head back to the boat for a swim and our normal evening ritual awaiting another fantastic sunset.

Menu
Dinner: Bonito tartare, cabbage with bean sprouts

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... sundown with some provisions indicating he’d be back the next day with the rest, of course, asking for more euros. We weren’t surprised.

We settled in for a lazy evening on the boat, well protected, but, a bit stuffy at the base of Baie St. Anne.

Menu
Dinner: Jerked pork loin, salad

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... of bees. Within minutes most of the boats are emptied and we’re paying our park fee of $30US per person and awaiting our tour guides for our walk through this bird sanctuary and research center.

With over 300,000 birds residing on the island, it’s a paradise for those aviary affectionatos. As for me, I’m actually doing very well as birds dart and dive over our heads. We’ ...

Victoria, Mahe Island -> I. Moyenne St. Anne Marine National Park

Provisioning day is always the toughest day of the charter. Lisa and Marcello's love of food make the ordeal much more intense, but, also much more rewarding as their Italian life style results in some fantastic gourmet meals. Judging from the outdoor market, they are in for a treat. So, we load our luggage into the jeep and I drop them off at the ...

Finally, we've arrived. It’s 6am in the Seychelles and we’re picking up our rental jeep for a short ride to our hotel, the Sunrise just outside of Victoria. Now, this American has to manage right hand drive and round-abouts after an 18 hour flight and 7 airline movies. Add to the challenge the fact that the road from the airport to ...

... and people kept calling me on the phone. That is unusual of both business people and tourists. He said he thought at first maybe I was a drug dealer.... I explained that I worked for a Church and was here for that reason. Then everything made sense. Apparently there is some overlap in our travel profiles! There was still a problem with the Internet. I could connect to the network, but I still couldn't get access to the Internet.

... at once. Now they are usually alone and they can show up any time anyplace around the island. I hoped that we would get lucky and see one on this dive. As we went down to about 15 meters, there was a lot of back and forth movement of the water in places even below 10 meters. Visibility was not good, less than 10 meters. The water had been churned up by waves and it was overcast so it wasn't bright. It was a little disappointing, it was not what I'd expected ...