Oasis Novorizonte Resort Cape Verde Sal Santa Maria

Saturday 17/01/09 St Vincent - Cape Verde Islands A truly volcanic island chain, the barren rugged mountains dominate the landscape and the surrounding islands to the extent that it resembles a lunar landscape. After a brief visit to the city of Mindelo we travelled on to Catfish Bay to take in the majestic sights of the bay and the rugged mountain backdrop, the strong ...

Je suis venu pour faire une plongee d exception : la grotte de taracona et son fameux rayon bleu. Je pense faire un sommet de volcan, la descente d un volcan est toujours sympa, la cendre se comporte comme de la cendre. Pour les photos il faut attendre que je trouve un centre internet haut debit.

... at least not on any commecial basis, but it is open to swimmers. A few years ago we visited the Dead Sea and well remember how revoltingly sticky we felt when got out. Looking at the squelchy mud, we decided to let other swim and instead tried to do some photographic justice to the sight of the sun setting over this lunar landscape. Those who swam had paid CV$100 for a shower, which turned out to be a hose applied from above by the tour guide. Ha ha ha!!

Sorry we haven¡¦t updated this sooner but it has been windy EVERYDAY since we last wrote. Our days have been very similar: wake up, go to bakery for fresh bread (only 3p a roll), pack up the kites, flag down a passing pick-up truck to take us over the ever changing desert of sand dunes to shark beach. Which incidentally I think is only called shark beach to scare off the tourists as we have even seen so much as a mini reef fish there yet ...