Sunset Beach Glacis

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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.

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... anchorage for the night. It’s a very rewarding final day of sailing in the Seychelles.

As we tie up to a mooring ball, the park rangers come to collect our $15US for the night and we prepare to snorkel the surrounding reef of Ille Moyenne. It’s a great snorkel with plenty of colorful and large ...

... 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 ...

... 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’s great that we don’t need much as it’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.

We’re back to the boat ...

... We began the circle hike through the park. Almost instantaneously you feel like you've been transported back into pre-historic times with, incredibly large coco du mer trees and overgrown prehistoric fauna surrounding you. Adding to this backdrop is the sexually suggestive nature of the male and female coco du mer seeds. Perhaps, the Adam and Eve had the same setting in ...

... s no need to top up the fuel. Once finished, we take Sunsail’s advice and head to the mooring ball field to meet Robert, but, instead find Miles, apparently, Robert does take a day off from managing his mooring balls.

Neal of Sunsail told us that we should depend on the custodians of these mooring balls to do our provisioning if we want to get the ...

... to shore. As we ask about fresh fish a fishermen is coming in with what appears to be about 10 small fish on a large metal ring. After a bit of haggling with the help of our new found friends, we buy 6 shoemaker fish for 10 euros and take a quick look in land for other resources.

Back at the boat, Lisa and Marcello decide to go back on shore to check the mini-markets and find ice for drinks. They return successfully having gotten ice ...

... experiencing in the Seychelles. After about 2 hours in the water and paying the park ranger on the island $15US/person, we headed back to Monkey Puzzle for a hearty lunch and short nap.

After lunch we dingied over a mile to Anse San Jose on Ille Curieuse. After exploring the leper colony museum, we started our 1.7km hike to the giant land tortoise refuge. The trail first ...

... planned mid-cruise provisioning in St. Anne, Praslin.

After lunch on board in La Passe, we headed down wind with light trade winds (SE 9-12k) pushing us wing to wing or "farfalla" (butterfy) as the Italians say a little about 10M northwest to Anse Petite Cour , Praslin where we tied up to a mooring ball which cost ...