We had a relatively calm night on La Digue. Our plan today is to go to Grand Soeur to snorkel and return to La Digue for the night. But before we left Rick thought of one more thing he wanted at the store so we dinghied into town. First stop the bakery for some breakfast treats. I got a chocolate croissant and Rick got a raisin rock cake, aka scone (In my opinion rock cake is a more accurate name.) We did our errands and returned to the boat. Here is a picture of the boat.
We left La Digue around 10AM and motored to Grand Soeur, an island which we had been told had great snorkeling. It was a relatively short distance so we motored. There were other boats there and we watched them after we got ourselves anchored. It appeared that there was a strong current running between Petite and Grand Sour because we saw a paddle boarder that couldn’t make it back to his boat and had to be towed back by the dinghy. We also watched a dinghy try to land on the island, but it was too rough and they turned around. Finally while we could see clearly see the reef running along the shore. Nobody was snorkeling. All these observations discouraged us from attempting to snorkel. So, we had some lunch on the boat and enjoyed the scenery.
We left there Grand Sour around 1PM and decided to head to a bay on Praslin instead of returning to a La Digue. The harbor has relatively easy access to Aride Island which is a bird sanctuary. We okan to visuit it tomorrow. It took us about 2 hours to motor to Anse Lazio, which is on the northern end of Praslin. Along the way we pass St Pierre island which is often photographed on Seychelles promotional literature. We hope to be back because there’s supposed to be great snorkeling. Here is a picture.
We arrived at Anse Lazio, a beautiful, well protected bay. We are expecting a great nights sleep here.
After anchoring we got into the dinghy to go ashore and explore a little. We beached the dinghy and tied it to a tree. We went to the local guest house for a drink.
We returned to the boat to eat the other half of our tuna steak! It’s going to be an early morning because we have to be at Aride, seven miles away, at 9AM.
Overall Anse Lazio is a great spot because we are not in the marine park so there is no charge, it’s well protected and we can get a taxi from here to go anywhere on the island. We’ll definitely be back here tomorrow night.
Here was today’s route
