Seychelles and Chagos

 This  is  a coconut called coco de mer. It is not from the sea. It is from a coconut  tree.

The pictures I just posted are all mixed.  Hope you enjoy them anyway.

This is what it looks like before the shell is taken off.

What a beautiful view from the tea museum. The bus we took to the tea museum

was also awesome. Every day we try to take the local buses on an adventure. It's  quite fun and cheap way to see the island.

Coconut crab and good eating. These next pictures are from Chagos where we spent a month.

This is where we did our laundry, fresh well water.

Every night we all met and sat around a camp fire and enjoyed each other's  company. Some time we brought food to cook and most always had fresh fish, which was abundant. 

This was called the yacht club which had been set up by other yachts.  At the time that we were there, there was four other yachts.

This is what it looked like when we got here.

 When the Chagoians  lived here they had a church 

,school, big cemetery,a hospital  even a 4 man jail. The structures are still standing, huge structures. 

We had sharks  swimming around the boat every day. They were harmless. 

A beautiful sunset while in Chagos. 

Back in Seychelles.  We went to the Botanical Gardens and this is just one of the beautiful flowers we saw.

A picture taken while we were at Eden Island Marina  as the clouds and mist were coming down the mountains. We are no longer at that Marina we moved to the other side of the channel at Angelfish Marina. 

Another picture of the clouds.

Solstice

The outer shell of the coco de mer.