Chateau St Cloud Hotel La Digue Island

... 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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... crossing back to the northwest coast of Mahe’ Island. We motored the 10M to Anse Lazio and snuggle up to the beach on the north side of the bay ready for another fantastic sunset as the skies cleared.

We have a bit of work before eating tonight as the octopus we got from Miles needs to be cleaned. As Marcello and I are in the cockpit cleaning the ...

... 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 ...

... sailing in rather than spend another suffocating night in the anchorage. In hindsight, it might have been wiser to remain protected in Baie St. Anne as I had gotten lazy and was no longer checking the local weather forecast. But, not knowing what was coming, we left again for a lovely “faralla” sail to Anse Petit Cour with 9-12k tradewinds at our stern.

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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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Anse Lazio -> Ille Cousine -> Anse Lazio

Today will be an interesting day for me as I have a "fear" of birds. Yep, it started with Alfred Hitcocks “The Birds” was enhanced by pigeon attacks while riding my bike growing up in Brooklyn and crow attacks while running after class in northern California. I plan to conquer that fear on the bird sanctuary of Ill Cousine.

We leave A ...

... the corner and viewed a picture perfect tropic beach setting – Anse Lazio.

After dropping anchor in about 5m of water, we went ashore and discovered a feet-in-the-sand restaurant on the north end of the beach and decided it was a must stop for lunch. A bit pricey, but, well worth the Octopus curry we tried. On the other hand the fish and mussel plates we ordered were a bit ordinary.

Needing to walk off a filling ...

... We chilled, chatted and smoked weed. Actually I have made quite a few friends like that. Many ppl see me around the streets, and come up and chat and offer me to smoke weed, since they see that I am rasta. It makes it very easy for me to make friends, when ppl are so generous and friendly. Sometimes men just want a chance to chat with me, so they offer to share a smoke. Overall, the men and women are good natured. I have ventured around ...

... till bordet för att visa vad hon ritat. En riktigt charmtroll. Maten var jättegod och vi kom tillbaka nästan varenda kväll. Efter en vecka åkte vi till den lite större ön Praslin där vi bodde på Berjaya Praslin Beach Resort vid Anse Volbert som ligger på Côte d'Or (Guldkusten). Namnet kommer sig av rykten om pirater och gömda skatter. Vi åkte ut till den lilla ön S:t Pierre och snorklade i hopp om att få se havssköldpaddan igen. Men den höll sig undan. Vi låg och ...

... closer to La Digue, we were starting to see what it was all about. The island was higher than we were expecting, with layered green trees all the way to the granite boulder skyline, and white beaches with granite boulder headlands. The lighthouse, just off the port, was located on a group of sculptured granite rocks, surrounded by turquoise water. Not bad. The guidebook says La Digue is easily the least developed of the main islands ...