October 8, 2022, Praslin to La Digue, Seychelles

We had another calm night in Baie Pasquiere.  This is the national park and we knew that we need to be out of there by 9:00 or else pay another fee for the day. So as Rick would say we were off the hook early.

 The day started out sunny but quickly became overcast and started to rain, but we left anyway. 

We decided to go back to La Digue because it has more facilities than Praslin. It has grocery stores and restaurants that are easily found ehwn we dinghy into town. So off we go, in the rain.  Again with the wind dead on our nose, we didn’t put up the sails. We just motored, headlong, throught the showerss. We were afraid that the anchorage would be untenable, but surprisingly it was OK, at least initially.  It had stopped raining and was just overcast. 

We sat on deck watching a neighboring catamaran trying to anchor.  Eventually they seemed settled, but something was clearly wrong, so we dinghied over to offer assistance.  Turned out they were from South Africa and their windlass (the motor that lowers and lifts the anchor) had jammed.  Rick offered to help, but we learned that they had called their charter company (a different one from ours) and thqt someone was on their way to help.  we noticed one of their creww was on the aft steps cleaning a large tuna (we guess it was about 30 pounds) that they had caught just hours prior to their arrival on La Digue.  They ended up giving us a beautiful tuna steak.  Thanks guys!

After putting the tuna in the refrigerator, we headed into town.  First we went to the bakery and got some bread.  Then we decided to go out for lunch.  We walked down the street, checking out the menus as we passed restaurants.  We ended up at a small hotel with a restaurant surrounded by a lovely garden.

We had a pizza and it was really good.  As Rick said better than we could get in East Brookfield.  Having filled up on pizza, we headed to the grocery store to a few provisions (no Randy we didn’t buy anymore overpriced cold cuts).  On our way back to the dinghy we stopped at the bank to get some cash.  We returned to the boat and relaxed below as it rained on and off.  We didn’t eat the tuna because we were still full from the pizza.  It will be delicious tomorrow.

Fingers crossed that it’s not too rocky and rolly tonight.

A couple of random thoughts, We are on a 52 ft boat (which can sleep up to 10). We had a 52 ft boat in Greece but there were six of us so we had help when sailing and anchoring. We were a little worried that the boat would be a lot for the two of us to handle, but we haven’t had any issues. The other thing is mostly Europeans seem to come to the Seychelles. Mostly we hear German being spoken. We have run into a few South Africans and a few folks from the Middle East and Israel, but no other Americans.