Alright everyone. Here I am. I know I have been a complete slacker. I don’t remember if I finished writing about
We spent two days in
Note- it rained most of the morning. But the weather cleared up and was gorgeous by the time we made it to the beach, where we were bombarded by men asking if we wanted to snorkel. In fact we did want to snorkel, but we decided to eat something first. We sat down at this chill restaurant directly across the only huge resort on the beach. Having been travelling the world, eating foreign foods, we all decided to order pizza. Haha With pineapple of course! I really questioned how good the pizza was going to be. But we really hadn’t eaten pizza in so long. I feel like they could have dumped ketchup on a cracker and we would have enjoyed it the same. It was actually really good! Actually it was almost better than the pizza in the states. Haha nahh I don’t know. Enough about Pizza. We also ordered our fair share of cocktails. Most of us got Pina Coladas (is that even how it’s spelled? I don’t know. Spell check doesn’t even know!) I didn’t though. I ordered something else. I can’t think of the name right now. Haha But it was blue, and very strong, and delicious all the same. Anyway, so we finished up our lunch and crossed the street to look for some snorkeling. We jumped in a glass bottom boat at 3(ish) dollars a piece and went snorkeling. It was a definite struggle at first (for me at least.) I definitely think I drank more salt water than I did cocktail. Haha Just kidding. It was so beautiful cruising the coral reef along the island, and chasing the fish around, trying to catch them. I swam down closer to the bottom of the reef until my feet decided that they couldn’t breathe anymore. (I was wearing size 5 flippers. My feetsies are size 7 and a half. Yeah, I couldn’t feel my feet anymore, so I swam back to the boat.) Our captain took us to 2 different snorkeling spots. The second one more gorgeous than the first, which I didn’t think was possible. The water was so crisp and clear. Against the beach and its white sand, the water was light green and as I got deeper in the ocean the water turned light blue and then darker and darker. But out aways from the beach there were big light green areas where you could see down to the white sand at the bottom. I’m sure you have seen those annoying Sandals, Jamaica commercials that talk about it being the perfect vacation spot and then it shows a couple rolling around in the beautiful white sand (but not really.) Well… picture that, but a lot better, and there were no people rolling around in the sand, so that was great.
After snorkeling we all just hung out. Our plan was to head back to the hostel, shower, and then go find a restaurant. That didn’t happen. Across the road we spotted a soccer team of strapping young men so we went and watched them run lines. Haha There was a perfect grassy field right next to their practicing area, so we sat in a circle and just talking. It was perfect. Everybody had a beer in hand, and something to share with the group. We sat there for a long while. Until sunset, actually. I remember this because the sunset was gorgeous. We all got up and ran to the beach to see it. The sky was every color of the rainbow, and the clouds radiated the colors even more. So, the sunset, and everyone began to franticly search for a taxi, except me. I stood there and enjoyed the beauty of being there, and the easiness of knowing we will make it back to the hostel. Haha And we did. Of course it took 2 taxis. As we waited for the second taxi, Jay and I talked with an older man with crazy dreadlocks sitting on the side of the road. He was so incredibly nice and funny. He had a bag of live prawns and got them out. At that point I was almost standing at the other side of the road. Haha Jay thought it would be funny to chase me around with a prawn. Definitely wrong. Finally the taxi arrived to take us back to the hostel. Or rather, the bus stop. We had to walk from the bus stop to the hostel, which is not a far walk, but it definitely was for me because I had to pee so bad. Anyway, got back, peed, showered, prettied myself up, and then we all headed to dinner. We ended up at this really nice restaurant right on a river (I think.) I table and everything was set up really nice, but there were deer heads all over the walls. It was ridiculous. I just loved that it was an outdoor restaurant. I think I ordered some vegetarian noodle dish. It was really yum. So then we were 14, but we met some other foreigners there. 2 of them were from Holland, and 1 was from Germany. There were all so incredibly nice. I told them all about my adventures in Europe and that I was going to be living in Italy for a couple months. We got along so well! So I invited them to cram in our van and come with us. We didn’t know where we were going. No bars were open, because it was a Wednesday or Thursday night I think. We ended up back at the hostel. But the night was still young. Our Dutch friend asked around to see where we could buy some beer. The new plan was to buy some beer and walk to the beach. So that’s what happened. We found a neighboring house that was selling beer, and we each made our purchases. We stood there in the street for a while. I beat up Jay while we waited for everyone, and then we all walked to the beach. Apparently I was walking too fast or something, because somehow I beat everyone to the pier. When I got there I collapsed down on the pier, and stared into the sky. It was the most beautiful moment. Everything was quiet around me, except for the water rushing towards the beach underneath me. It was the first time I’ve had real alone time, since I got on the ship. As I laid there I memorized all of my surroundings so that I could later come back to the moment. If I close my eyes now, it’s as if I am there. After a couple minutes, everybody found me and we all sat in a circle on the pier, and just talked. It was so peaceful. A night I will always treasure. I’m not sure how long we were there, but it felt like a century. We finally trekked back to the hostel (coincidentally our European friends were staying at the same hostel. I think I am the only one that didn’t know that. Haha)
Next morning- headed back to the beach to find wind surfing. We spent most of the morning looking for a place to wind surf. It never worked out, which was a bummer. Jay and Eric couldn’t find scuba diving either. So, we all ended up snorkeling again. This time it was a much smaller group, because 5 of our friends had left early that morning to go exploring somewhere else. Snorkeling was more fun in a smaller group. Haha Or maybe it was because I had practiced breathing through that tube the day before. Haha I didn’t drink as much salt water. It was another great day of snorkeling. We left the beach early afternoon via bus. We were headed back to Port Louis. The bus ride was very nice. I sat with Julie Anne, and we listened to music most of the way back. Thomas and Deirdre sat across the pathway from us, and Jay sat behind us. As you can see, our group really dwindled down. A lot of the group chickened out and took a taxi back to Port Louis. We were the more adventurous group that jumped on the 2 hour bus ride. When we got back to Port Louis we then had to adventure to find the ship. We had no idea how to get there, so we asked around. It took about an hour to find it. We made it on the ship 15 minutes before “On Ship Time.” (Basically if we arrive after “on ship time” then we get dock time in the next country. We would have to sit on the ship for 3 hours after everybody has already gotten off.) It was a close call.
So, Mauritius was gorgeous. And I suggest you see it. It would be a nice Honeymoon spot. ;)
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