Les Villas D'Or Praslin Island

... rest of my day basically consisted of riding bicycle around the island until I needed to swim (to cool off). Along my riding, there was one place that I noticed as a seemingly great place to stay. There were a bunch of little bungalows right near the water, the place was called Iles des Palmes, and it struck my interest enough for me to go in and inquire about the prices. It really wasn't too expensive - I think even in ...

... car I had previously rented is waiting for us in the parking lot. Even better, Neal was able to arrange the rental of a local home for our last night in the Seychelles. As we say goodbye to Monkey Puzzle, we know that we still have one more day to explore the Seychelles and that we did with lunch at the ...

... The coral heads are some of the best I’ve seen on the trip, making for a fine snorkel.

Once back on the boat, we half-heartedly attempt to set a stern anchor so that we’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 ...

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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... rain. We quickly turned around and head back to our mooring ball on Anse Petit Cour as it was the closest safe anchorage. Just when we cleared the point, about a 100m from the mooring ball, the wind quickly kicked up to 35 knots. We decided to complete the maneuver, successfully, and waited for the wind to build feeling we were as protected as possible in the lee of ...

... attitude perfectly, was very entertaining, and delivered the goods.

We expected the price increases with his various deliveries, but, still felt the cost was reasonable for cost of provisioning in the Seychelles and we’re very glad we took Neal’s advice and recommend you do the same.

After Miles’s delivery we decided to shove-off and get ...

... and to clean our catch.

But, we did have a dilemma as the wind was blowing from the stern of the boat, we could not setup the grill in the classic stern position with sparks and smoke passing through our boat (not recommended) and those of our neighbors. Solution – setup the grill on the bow. With that settled Lisa attacked preparing the bonito that we caught. First ...

... adventurous and she always is aware of the great powert within her. As for me, well, I will again quote Bob Marley," I had no chains upon my feet, but I was not free. I was born in captivity." I feel that I have finally escaped "the farm". I always knew that I did not belong there. I am not sure whether I was always a hawk, just born in captivity, that finally escaped, or if I am one of those rare chickens who developed their wings and remembered ...

... we wait for Air Seychelles to open at 9am. This is when we find out that the only vacancy is at 6.45am tomorrow, even though there are lots of the 15 minute flights throughout the day. Because it is Saturday, there are lots of International flights arriving, with passengers making the connection. So much for having a leisurely seaside breakfast tomorrow! Taking it easy in paradise seems to be very hard to achieve. We get the flight ...