Hotel Bel Air Victoria

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 ...

... anchorage for the night. It’s a very rewarding final day of sailing in the Seychelles.

As we tie up to a mooring ball, the park rangers come to collect our $15US for the night and we prepare to snorkel the surrounding reef of Ille Moyenne. It’s a great snorkel with plenty of colorful and large ...

... in and head to the coral about 100m off the starboard bow of the boat. They see plenty of fish is the crystal clear water with great rock formation and pinnacles. They're pleasantly surprised and fell that the snorkel rates with that at Ille Coco and St. Pierre. We also feed the bat fish which weren’t shy about taking bread practically from Marcello’s ...

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 the Mahe’ 30M away.

It’s a perfect sail with one maneuver to reel ...

... s no need to top up the fuel. Once finished, we take Sunsail’s advice and head to the mooring ball field to meet Robert, but, instead find Miles, apparently, Robert does take a day off from managing his mooring balls.

Neal of Sunsail told us that we should depend on the custodians of these mooring balls to do our provisioning if we want to get the ...

... re just a bit too picky, but, it was more because we wondered what we would find in other markets. Believe it or not the hardest staple for us to find was charcoal. Eventually, after stopping in four different supermarkets and shops having completed our staples provisioning we headed back to Sunsail and a well deserved lunch at the Wharf Hotel. Fortunately, in the Seychelles you can call the rental car company and just ...

... and guiding us clear.

The ordeal demands our first round of cocktails and lunch at Le Rendez-vous Restaurant & Lounge Bar a great setting overlooking the miniature Big Ben at the heart of Victoria. After a good lunch and a couple of Seybrew beers, we head off to the Sunsail base outside the Wharf Hotel.

As with all our charters ...

This evening at 6:00 pm I took a taxi into town to The Pirate Arms. I was a few minutes early and waited off the side for the people to come. While I waited, a drunk tried to walk in the restaurant, and the big security guard at the door had to gently move him back out again. I did my best to stay clear. Three people, one woman and two men, arrived right at 7:00. We greeted each other and moved over to the Justice Building on ...

... at the same beach area were two young American sailors on shore leave. There is a US navy ship in port at the moment. These two, from Virginia and Kansas, were waiting for two more mates to arrive so they could go deep sea fishing. We chatted for a few minutes while we waited. They were mixing drinks already, and apologized for it. "We're starting a little early" they told me "we've been at sea for 60 days; this is our first leave for that period." I asked if ...

... wanted someone (meow!) to (meow!) pet it or (MEOW!) give it milk. (Puurrrr). Then Dad sat on its tail. Then we drove on. We got stopped on our way to the beach and warned not to leave things in our Moke. We then went to the beach. I went snorkeling, or gargling, and saw some great fish. Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel. We had fish for dinner but I wasn't hungry (I wonder why.) Then I washed my hair and went to bed.