Where to begin? There will be much to say and much to discover so I’ll start from the hotel and move towards the beach. The hotel has its own beach, but the gap between it and the sea is huge, 10-15m from the edge.
It’s a vast stretch where you can comfortably walk or run on a relatively flat surface for a long time without sinking into the sand. I went there in the morning so met herds of goats and cows with magnificent horns. I’m not entirely sure but I think that they belong to the President’s livestock. People speak good English but the accent sometimes makes it hard to understand. When you want to be polite, you ask them to repeat it twice at most… unless it’s very important ☺. The animals graze on the “Island” where sporadic patches of grass grow (though rather dryly in this season).
From afar, I could see a kind of micro-estuary which brought water to a ‘pool’. I waited for the beasts to cross just to realise that it wasn’t possible to do so without the water level reaching the chest. It’s a bit much. In fact, seeing as there’s a road in parallel to the beach (about 80 to 200m distance), it’s always a possibility to walk further via this road or to come back by it.
When you go off to the right, you arrive near a fishing ‘village’ with their funny looking and vibrantly coloured boats (although most would need a good lick of paint!). They are basically settled "nets' and people dry their fish on rope/nets taut on wooden posts.
Many boats don’t have motors and so are propelled by oar or, wind-permitting, by sail. This type of sail reminded me of Rodrigues though the latter’s were triangular.
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