Gregoire's Apartments La Digue Island

Il Moyenne -&gt; Sunsail's new base<br><br>We&#8217;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.<br><br>Sunsail&#8217;s staff helps unload and ...

... The coral heads are some of the best I&#8217;ve seen on the trip, making for a fine snorkel.<br><br>Once back on the boat, we half-heartedly attempt to set a stern anchor so that we&#8217;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 ...

... time for another provisioning run. Marcello and I take a walk up the road to Vitoria and find a few minimarkets that have frozen meat, fresh bread, bottled water, and beer. It&#8217;s great that we don&#8217;t need much as it&#8217;s a longer walk than we expected. Meanwhile, Lisa has inquired about a dive with the whale sharks at the resort ...

... colored fish of all types and size including eagle rays, lion fish, blue and green striped grouper. The water is shallow, maybe .5-1.5m below the surface so the light is fantastic. Coral formations are beautiful. We must have spent at least 2 hours in the water. This has to be one of the best snorkel locations in the world.<br><br>We&#8217;re back to the boat ...

Petite Cour to ride out storm<br><br>We wanted to snorkel Ille Coco just off the coast of Ille Felicite' and La Digue, so we motored southeast under ominous, grey skies. It wasn&#8217;t too bright on our part.<br><br>After 15 minutes of navigating we called Sunsail&#8217;s base for a weather forecast and learned that Mahe&#8217; was being pelted with 80-100 Km/hr winds ...

... 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 &#8220;faralla&#8221; sail to Anse Petit Cour with 9-12k tradewinds at our stern.<br><br ...

... 8217; so he had the funds to buy our produce. Neal said we can trust Robert, so we decided to also trust Miles.<br><br>We took a short dingy ride to the shore for a brief walk around the port and a dingy trip around Ille St. Anne, a man-made island in the middle of the bay. Back to the boat to await Miles and prepare for our evening ritual. He returned a bit ...

... an interesting afternoon. Walking back, we found a little bigger shop and bought eggs, bacon and noodles for diner. The bungalow is not that bad: it IS big! And the local beer tastes German: OK but more than a Euro for 1 beer in the shop. And it is thirsty weather! Is this the way you eat mango? In the evening, we had a long talk with Debra (you know: like zebra ...). She says the government is AND incapable AND corrupt. A load of 1 ton of onions is ...

... skyddad av stora stenar på sidorna helt för oss själva. På andra sidan stenblocket pågick en filminspelning vilket inte är ovanligt. Reklamfilmer för tex. Bounty och Sports Illustrated har spelats in här. Medan jag låg och solade öppnade Henrik kokosnötter vilket påminde smått om Scrats envisa kamp med nöten i Ice Age.... :) En annan liten men fin strand är Anse Patates. Där såg Henrik en havssköldpadda när han snorklade. Några kvällar tog vi våran ficklampa och ...

... one hundred countries we have visited, that we have been refused public tranport with our baggage. The town is strung out along a fairly uninteresting bay, so we continue walking till we find a public phone. Ring our booked accommodation on La Digue, Chez Marston. Seems surprised that we are coming today, rather than tomorrow, although we have a confirmed booking in writing. Says he'll fix something up. Then have the bright idea of ...