Travelog post for: Nami Geneveva

Today we took a tiny islandhopper (a propellor plane with place for 20 passengers) to Praslin.

Praslin below us:


We needed a rest in our new room.


Grand Anse, where we are gets a lot of sea grass during July/August, because of the way the winds blow into the bay at that time. They may even cause many small fish and with them small sharks come into the bay.



The sand plovers were very shy and most fled before one could even get a good look at them.


We walked along the beach toward the north-west. There's this place that brings up oisters for their black pearls and also raises some young or hurt fish and sea animals. It's Black Pearl of Seychelles. This is their boat, you can see the tanks behind the fence.

We looked for a few of their discarded mussels for the beautiful glittering ones. Some of them with half-formed pearls are sold, but with a bit of climbing and digging we also found a few beautiful ones here.
Here you can see Cousin and Cousine, two islands that are privately owned. Cousin(right) is a nature reserve for birds. We'll go there next week. Cousine(left) is a hotel island and has 4 villas for 2 person's each. The guests are flown in by helicopter and pay 1200€/night, minimum length of stay is 3 nights. Part of the money is used for the renaturalization of the island and bird and turtle protection. Each guest can plant a native tree (otherwise it is planted for him) to replace the introduced ones. Other people have to get the permission of the hotel management before they can come on the island.

We went around to the street side. This is their sign. We would have liked to have such a collier, but the prices started at a couple thousand Euros.

As you can see they are directly at the end of the runway of the small island airport where we also arrived today.


We went back to the house along the road and got a number of offers of rides or cookies, whatever kind of cookies they meant. We prefered walking, though. It's much calmer here then on Mahé and a car only passes every now and then. There'S also something like an unpaved sidewalk.

This sign warns you of the only stop-light on this island. The runway ends only a few meters in front of the road.