Le Meridien Fisherman's Cove Bel Ombre

... 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 ...

Port Launay - Ille Moyenne

Last full day on Monkey Puzzle in the Seychelles and we're heading north to round the Island to spend the night in St. Anne Marine Park. The wind picks up as we approach BeauVallon Beach and we begin sailing first on a bean reach and as we round the island close hauled tacking to our ...

... tips.

After lunch, we continue on, sailing to our night stop at Port Launay. We get the anchor in just to port of the cross marketing the reef on the western side of the bay and jump in for an evening snorkel. This time we snorkeled all the way to the beach, then back along the cliffs on the eastern side of the bay. The light was pretty low, but, we ...

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 ...

... wait out the swarm attack and pray for a clearing wind.

It comes after only a short wait, clearing the deck of all bugs. So back to our evening ritual and as Marcello would say, what a "goduria".

Menu
Lunch: Cold Snapper with mango salad
Dinner: Grilled octopus, fish pasta with Mexican spices

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... white wine, and set the marine oven to do it’s stuff while dancing to the rhythm of waves. IT WAS DELICIOUS!! … and we still laugh about that day in the Seychelles and feel sorry that Lisa was unable to enjoy a fantastic "pesce a vapore".

Menu
Dinner: one mega-red snapper cooked to perfection

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... 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.

Petite Cour, Seychelles Islands gmanvento

... Sunday, we do not even TRY to get arranged for our night in Mauritius. I asked Glynis if she knew about a launderette or a lady who could wash our clothes. I am afraid not. Everything is dirty by now! The life of a world traveler is not easy. In the evening we go to the restaurant of the hotel. The choice for the wine is: wine or no wine. But the food is nice. We are back in the apartment around 21h and start a new series: 'Life on Mars'. Weird stuff... . Dodo at midnight.

... the shape which we see everywhere: in tourist shops, around people's necks (in small gold, not THE nuts), ... . When, on top of that, it starts pouring, we leave, a bit disappointed. Since our kitchenette is in fact a kitchen, we go shopping and home. You can see our swimming pool in the rain! On the arch over our bedroom, there is a coco de mer. We also have a cozy sitting room. Where we watch our last 'Midsomer Murder'.

... across a rocky slope, with a chain wire guard fence on the steep side. The last section was on a sandy road through a dried swamp area to a rustic restaurant behind the beach at Grande Anse. The beach was quite beautiful, with blue green water, a surf running, and granite boulder ridges running down to headlands each end. The surf was too rough for swimming, with strong currents, and not good enough for surfing, in spite of the presence ...