New Emerald Cove Hotel Praslin Island

... about La Digue. As in, where would I be staying. It was such short notice at that point, and knowing that Dave had put such an incredible offer on the table, I couldn't refuse it. So, I decided to give him a call. I asked him if he was still okay with me staying for a few days, and he told me that "I was more than welcome to". I let him know that I was only planning to stay for Thursday and Friday, and he insisted that ...

... 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&#8217;ll be spending the next year on terra firma.<br><br>With sundowner in hand, we bid adieu to our final sunset on Monkey Puzzle.<br><br>Mapped Photo Gallery<br>BareboatingtheWorld.com

... 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&#8217;s great that we don&#8217;t need much as it&#8217;s a longer walk than we expected. Meanwhile, Lisa has inquired about a dive with the whale sharks at the resort ...

... colored fish of all types and size including eagle rays, lion fish, blue and green striped grouper. The water is shallow, maybe .5-1.5m below the surface so the light is fantastic. Coral formations are beautiful. We must have spent at least 2 hours in the water. This has to be one of the best snorkel locations in the world.<br><br>We&#8217;re back to the boat ...

... in 3-4m of sandy bottom. But, then we wouldn&#8217;t have a great memory of cooking our mega-red snapper while rocking back and forth in the salon. All I can say to Lisa is --- sorry.<br><br>As you might have guessed, nothing was going to keep Marcello from cooking our red snapper that day. The only question was how. HE consider the grill but felt it was too small ...

... taking a mooring ball, Lisa and Marcello headed to the south side of the bay to snorkel the cliffs and encountered a moray eel and turtle, plus some great rock formation. Once back, it started to drizzle, so we had dinner inside the boat for the first time.<br><br>Menu<br>Dinner: grilled shoemaker fish, Greek salad <br><br>Mapped Photo Gallery<br>BareboatingtheWorld.com

We decide to start our day spending a couple of hours on internet. We pack our computers and head for Victoria. We enter the internet café at 10h30 and leave at 16h!!!!! Still, we did not establish so much! The internet is slow. Our mailbox is full. I have a mail from my personnel director, telling me my papers for my 'leave without pay' extension have been sent the 17th of September. Nothing was received in the Passiewijk: what now? I call Mauritius: we stay over a night between ...

Solid land again!!! I have just arrived in the VERY beautiful islands of Seychelles. This is the place of my dreams, literally. I first heard of this wonderful place last July when my friend Woody told me that he had a brother who travelled the world and said that the most beautiful place he ever found was Seychelles. I then decided that I would one day like to go there. I never thought it would be this quick!!! So, to tell the story of my voyage and arrival ...

... road South. By dumb luck we end up on the inland road, rather than the Airport expressway, so cover some new ground through residential and bushy areas, getting a photo of a large church with typical rounded granite rocks behind at Cascade. There is a series of lagoons between the expressway and the inland road, all the way down to the airport, connected to further lagoons inside a second go at filling in all the original reef area ...