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Trip report: Seychelles
Vacation is over. We were staying in Calou guesthouse on La Digue island, Seychelles. Great place, nice food, all guests only speak French or German and engaging in a long conversations every evening is part of the experience.
Most of the time we've spent snorkeling in the ocean.
It was great to swim with sea turtles. Sadly enough, only after about 5 minutes they get bored of me and go below my normal diving depth (around 5 meters).
They seem to be more intelligent beings then giant turtles that slowly crawling the island and graze on grass.
7 more pictures are under cut.
Typical village life: hens and roosters, cows, goats roam the island freely. Hens graze on mangoes, there are plenty falling down from trees. E.g. when several fruit eating bats start fighting for a ripe mango it usually falls down and is then quickly consumed by hens.
I was surprised that things are not expensive there. E.g. we spent about 15 euros for a great seafood lunch + drinks for 2 persons daily. All in a very nice place. The previous picture was actually taken from a backyard of that cafe, and here is the interior:
And here is how the seafood gets to a kitchen.
Speaking about food. There is abundance of tropical fruits around.
Quest for those who know French: what does the phrase at the bottom of the picture mean?
Everyone use bicycles as a main transport option.
We've seen three big turtles in wild
And around 40 turtles behind a concrete wall. Poor animals suffer there. This is something for greens to look at rather then fighting for rights of chicken in the farms or for reversing technical progress.
I've seen a poison less snake which refused to being filmed, and scolopendra who did not mind me taking pictures of it.
All other images are in Picasa album
While sea life was great, this time I made very few pictures because of some issue with charger for underwater camera. I had to assemble another charger from parts I had but it could only charge the battery up to 10% of capacity.
Most of the time we've spent snorkeling in the ocean.
It was great to swim with sea turtles. Sadly enough, only after about 5 minutes they get bored of me and go below my normal diving depth (around 5 meters).
They seem to be more intelligent beings then giant turtles that slowly crawling the island and graze on grass.
7 more pictures are under cut.
Typical village life: hens and roosters, cows, goats roam the island freely. Hens graze on mangoes, there are plenty falling down from trees. E.g. when several fruit eating bats start fighting for a ripe mango it usually falls down and is then quickly consumed by hens.
I was surprised that things are not expensive there. E.g. we spent about 15 euros for a great seafood lunch + drinks for 2 persons daily. All in a very nice place. The previous picture was actually taken from a backyard of that cafe, and here is the interior:
And here is how the seafood gets to a kitchen.
Speaking about food. There is abundance of tropical fruits around.
Quest for those who know French: what does the phrase at the bottom of the picture mean?
Everyone use bicycles as a main transport option.
We've seen three big turtles in wild
And around 40 turtles behind a concrete wall. Poor animals suffer there. This is something for greens to look at rather then fighting for rights of chicken in the farms or for reversing technical progress.
I've seen a poison less snake which refused to being filmed, and scolopendra who did not mind me taking pictures of it.
All other images are in Picasa album
While sea life was great, this time I made very few pictures because of some issue with charger for underwater camera. I had to assemble another charger from parts I had but it could only charge the battery up to 10% of capacity.