Bird Island Lodge

Il Moyenne -> Sunsail's new base

We’re up early to get the boat in before 9am and call Neal at Sunsail to learn the new location for the base. As we head in, one of the Sunsail staff boards Monkey Puzzle to med moor us to the new floating dock.

Sunsail’s staff helps unload and ...

... The coral heads are some of the best I’ve seen on the trip, making for a fine snorkel.

Once back on the boat, we half-heartedly attempt to set a stern anchor so that we’d have our bow set into the waves which caused a substantial amount of roll our first night. Feeling we were setting it too close ...

... 8217;t see very much worth noting under the water.

This will be our last western sunset, but, more interesting for Lisa was her feeling of returning to Bora, Bora when the moon rose.

Menu
Lunch: tuna salad
Dinner: Grilled tuna with mango salsa, mushroom risotto, green beans with Japanese herbs

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... 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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... some beer, lunch, and a short rest before tackling the northern side. In the water again, but, it’s starting to get grey and there’s a much stronger current. So, one by one we abandon are afternoon snorkel content with what we experience in the morning.

We’re off to our last anchorage in the northern island group and jump off point for ...

... in 3-4m of sandy bottom. But, then we wouldn’t have a great memory of cooking our mega-red snapper while rocking back and forth in the salon. All I can say to Lisa is --- sorry.

As you might have guessed, nothing was going to keep Marcello from cooking our red snapper that day. The only question was how. HE consider the grill but felt it was too small ...

... We began the circle hike through the park. Almost instantaneously you feel like you've been transported back into pre-historic times with, incredibly large coco du mer trees and overgrown prehistoric fauna surrounding you. Adding to this backdrop is the sexually suggestive nature of the male and female coco du mer seeds. Perhaps, the Adam and Eve had the same setting in ...

... 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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... little problem hanging out with 100,000s birds on their turf. Guess it’s just the nasty, city types that I don’t appreciate. The staff makes a show of landing the launches on the beach as they ferry us back to our respective boats. The anchorage empties instantaneously as the day trippers leave for their respective resorts, leaving Ille Cousine completely to us. It’s a great setting for ...

... to shore. As we ask about fresh fish a fishermen is coming in with what appears to be about 10 small fish on a large metal ring. After a bit of haggling with the help of our new found friends, we buy 6 shoemaker fish for 10 euros and take a quick look in land for other resources.

Back at the boat, Lisa and Marcello decide to go back on shore to check the mini-markets and find ice for drinks. They return successfully having gotten ice ...