Villa anse possession Praslin Island

... door, shaking my head in disbelief as to how in three days I have somehow been fortunate enough to spend a total of 35 dollars for accommodations in a place that can be one of the more expensive countries to stay in. How completely lucky I felt, and now I was about to spend the next 4 or 5 days seeing two islands that were well known for having some of the best beaches in the world. What a contrast of worlds between here and ...

Il Moyenne -> Sunsail's new base

We’re up early to get the boat in before 9am and call Neal at Sunsail to learn the new location for the base. As we head in, one of the Sunsail staff boards Monkey Puzzle to med moor us to the new floating dock.

Sunsail’s staff helps unload and ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

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Dinner: Bonito tartare, cabbage with bean sprouts

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... we start to feel bugs landing, first one or two, then 10s, and eventually, 1000s. The air is so still we are being invaded by black flies as the sunsets. Guess we’re going to be deprived of our final Lazio sunset after all as we quickly go below and close the boat down to avoid an infestation below deck. It’s stifling below, but, we have no choice but ...

Petite Cour to ride out storm

We wanted to snorkel Ille Coco just off the coast of Ille Felicite' and La Digue, so we motored southeast under ominous, grey skies. It wasn’t too bright on our part.

After 15 minutes of navigating we called Sunsail’s base for a weather forecast and learned that Mahe’ was being pelted with 80-100 Km/hr winds ...

... 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 ...

... book. But so was Shark Bank and we were not that impressed. But we know: we are very spoilt! L'îlot is a rock, sticking above and under the water. The diving was different. The coral varied and colorful. But the current is lethal. It was a lot of hard work. The other thing: we are SURROUNDED by Germans. With all respect, Michael. It takes away the social aspect of diving. But Linda, Mark and me, the whole boat is German ...

... Victoria, where we are is very rich. The main industries are tourism and tuna fishing. We are actually anchored close to the tuna factory and can smell it unfortunately from the boat. The local ppl are creole, and everyone speaks french and english and creole which is very close to french.I cant tell too much more as this is my first day, but I definitely will update more with pics very soon. We met our last missing crew member here today too. His name is ...

... then back on a narrow road, where we had to reverse a couple of times to let traffic past. The sea looks good, but we couldn't find anywhere to stop until we drove into a construction site and asked if we could park. A friendly worker gives us the OK, so we walk back to a pretty, secluded cove. MP has to go back for camera, which we left in car. Not a lot to report, but OK snorkelling. Carried on to another parking place, and climbed ...