Lazare Picault Mahe Island

... the duffel was just a lightweight (easy-to-hide) carry-on bag, the bus was completely full. The driver didn't really hesitate, or give me any signs of grief, but I gave him 14 Rupee anyhow, just to alleviate any potential lingering haste he might have had. However, after paying him, when I turned to search for a place to sit, there was no vacancy, and the look on everyone's face was of a don't even try it tourist kind, so I decided to stand ...

... would simply say that it is the Seychellois way - and that friends help each other out. He also mentioned that you always hear stories about being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that this was one of those few "right place, right time" moments. Whatever the reason was, I am forever grateful for it and for him (and his generosity). If the world were only full of people like him, I cannot imagine how good it would be. Another amazing day in the Seychelles

... while they played. After twenty minutes or so, he and I decided to go for a walk. He was going to help me find a place to purchase a Sim Card for my cell phone. Unable to locate a place that was selling the Sim Cards, we continued onward to meet up with his friends. Up a little hill and into the woods (if you will), not too far from where we started, his friends were sitting on the side of a road. It felt slightly uncomfortable, but ...

... 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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... 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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... 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’s great that we don’t need much as it’s a longer walk than we expected. Meanwhile, Lisa has inquired about a dive with the whale sharks at the resort ...

... 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 ...

... underwater. WHAT? Are you insane? Was that a joke, or serious advice? It didn't really matter, because under no circumstances was I going to do that... that is what husbands whose idea this was are for, right? And then it happened. Five minutes after we were in the water we saw our first shark silhouette in the distance and it came towards us until it was about 15 feet away and then it turned. And that was just the first of the 20 or so sharks we saw on the dive. Sometimes ...

... tumble of grainy surf. It creeps dangerously close to my toes but I don't mind when it finally slurps up to my ankles leaving behind bubbley boots covering my feet. I take a long even breath exhaling slowly as I watch two football sized chestnut brown coconuts are trying to make it onto the beach. They take turns tottering on the smooth sand then toppling back awkwardly into the foamy surf. I wage mental bets on which giant coffeebean will reach the ...