Mango Lodge Praslin Island

... time to find a place where I could finally jump into the Indian Ocean for the first time. I headed back east, passed the apartment, and then northwest towards the Curieuse Bay. It wasn't a terrible ride, but certainly if a person hasn't trained at all for it, you may elect to rent a car instead. Anyway, as I got closer to my destination, I had another short, but steep hill to climb, and after I made it back down the other side, I ...

... br><br>With that we were up before dawn to catch our 7am flight back to Italy connecting through Qatar and thus finished an incredible two weeks of sailing, that offered so much more. A trip that every sailor should attempt at least once in their life.<br><br>Mapped Photo Gallery<br>BareboatingtheWorld.com

Port Launay - Ille Moyenne<br><br>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 ...

... shop on the beach. Unfortunately, we arrived about an hour too late to take the afternoon dive. After buying ice at the bar, we head back to the boat for a swim and our normal evening ritual awaiting another fantastic sunset.<br><br>Menu<br>Dinner: Bonito tartare, cabbage with bean sprouts<br><br>Mapped Photo Gallery<br>BareboatingtheWorld.com

... some beer, lunch, and a short rest before tackling the northern side. In the water again, but, it&#8217;s starting to get grey and there&#8217;s a much stronger current. So, one by one we abandon are afternoon snorkel content with what we experience in the morning.<br><br>We&#8217;re off to our last anchorage in the northern island group and jump off point for ...

... the rocking to severe and the fish would end up in the sea. Of course, that would be a catastrophe and a violation of nature. We thought about cooking in salt, but, realized we most certainly didn&#8217;t have enough for such a big fish. So with true Italian grit, he trimmed the fish so it could fit in the oven, covered it in aluminum foil filled with lemon, spices ...

... 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 ...

... The 'real' town is supposed to be 600m away, Lonely Planet, of course. It is also the town where the diving shop is, where we start our diving tomorrow. On their website it says that Bel ombre, where we are, is half an hour away from them. They are in Beau Vallon. Hmmmmm. We start walking to Beau Vallon. And walking and walking. The long and the short of it: from our bungalow to the beach of Beau Vallon is AT LEAST 3km. I think more of 5km. the road ...

... is quite expensive. There is a restaurant called ZEROF (good food) and a supermarked besides. The owner offers accomodation (there is NO sign that they have accomodation (just 2o Euro/room/night). If you want to buy a flag for your wall at home, you will not find it in any shops. On ly last day in paradise I found out that it can be bought only at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (it was no problem to get it there....). DONT´S ...

... with palm trees over, and some pretty flash houses. One had a weird suspended walkway out over the sea, but about 20m off it, a bit high for tying up boats. Another was nestled into a magic little cove surrounded by boulders, but no public path down to it. Anywhere you could reasonably park had no water access, until we were almost home. A bunch of old men were sitting on the sea wall when we pulled into the park, almost getting bogged ...