Villa Pigra Praslin Island

... Moments later, I started safeguarding my room. Then I changed into my swimming trunks, packed my backpack, and put on my headphones. I had no plan whatsoever other than to just go and see what happens - stop when and where I wanted to. I locked the door, cranked up the volume on the MP3 player, and started biking. I wound up taking the road that goes up to the highest peak on the island (I think) - a road that leads to the ...

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 ...

... 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’ll be spending the next year on terra firma.

With sundowner in hand, we bid adieu to our final sunset on Monkey Puzzle.

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... 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.

Menu
Dinner: Bonito tartare, cabbage with bean sprouts

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... wait out the swarm attack and pray for a clearing wind.

It comes after only a short wait, clearing the deck of all bugs. So back to our evening ritual and as Marcello would say, what a "goduria".

Menu
Lunch: Cold Snapper with mango salad
Dinner: Grilled octopus, fish pasta with Mexican spices

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... rain. We quickly turned around and head back to our mooring ball on Anse Petit Cour as it was the closest safe anchorage. Just when we cleared the point, about a 100m from the mooring ball, the wind quickly kicked up to 35 knots. We decided to complete the maneuver, successfully, and waited for the wind to build feeling we were as protected as possible in the lee of ...

... Garden of Eden. Deep in the granite strewn, thick rainforest you really feel eons away from civilization.

Finishing our hike, we easily picked up a taxi in the parking lot to take us back to our dingy and Monkey Puzzle to see what "fish" Miles was able to purchase for us. Were we in for a surprise, for shortly after arriving, we saw miles cruising towards on in his ...

Today we dive at Dragon Teeth. Called like that because on top and under the water, the rocks look like giant teeth. Charmaine is our dive master, she is very nice. This dive cannot beat yesterday's but we do enjoy it. At the end of the dive, I saw something, I never saw before: 2 women jumped in the water to smoke because you cannot smoke on the boat. And then: the impossible happens: hubby convinces me to do an AFTERNOON ...

... tale huff of their occasional neccessary breath, and the subtle distinct splish of their brief surfacing. Some moonlit nights I could even see them jet through the moonlit waters around us. On those occasions I noticed that they were much smaller then the variety I seen off the coast of Tanzania. I wander what it is that brings them to us. Is it that they find Karaka motherly, with her smooth large shape and careless glide? Perhaps in fact they can tell ...

... soak in the chest deep sea in front of our hotel for half an hour before tea, admiring the lovely setting. Another good sized pizza meal, then packing for an early start, serenaded by a mediocre baby boomer band Saturday 20th May Mahe-Praslin-La Digue (Seychelles) Awake before the 5.30 am alarm, after very little sleep, and down at reception by 5.15. Book out, let them know we are expecting a 5.45 taxi, and have a go at early ...