Wonderful Day

We know we have not posted in while. We went to 7-colored earth, called Chamarel, Rochester Falls, and La Vanille crocodile park on Sunday. And yes, I drove the van and I had my right foot all the way down but the van would go at crawl speed. Lots of winding roads but I made it there and back no problem.
Monday morning, we got up at 4:30a to go swimming at Quatres Bornes. Since we did not know the way we allowed ourselves 1 hour but we got there in less than 1/2 hour. Heather has had 3 training at 3 different pools. On the way back, I got lost and somehow got back to Port Louis.
Tuesday my van would not start at 6:30a and I had to take a taxi to Belle Mare plage to meet my brother and his family at 8a and I could not call them since their phone has no connection (Canadian phones!!!). We went to L'ile aux Cerfs (Deer island), it is an island off the east coast next to Touessrock hotel. I hear the rate at the hotel is $1,500 per night (but it is all inclusive - food, drinks, water activities, tennis, golf,...) We hired a boat to take us to the little waterfalls at Grand Riviere Sud Est (Grand River South East) and they took us to l'ile aux cerfs, then they took us to another island for grilled chicked and fish, then back to l'ile aux Cerfs and then back to the beach where we started from. We then went to a restaurant for local type food. We stayed at Palmar, which is close to Belle Mare.
Wednesday we woke up to a beautiful sunrise on the ocean and we could watch local fishermen trying to get fish from their little boats. It was low tide; so, we got a couple of puffer fish, a starfish, some kind of shell, a clear flat fish (don't know what it is called - we named it "flubber"). There are lots os sea urchins, eels, and some kind of other snake like creatures. We then went back to Port Louis and Heather and I went to Adventure of Sugar Cane where you can visit all the machines they use to make sugar. Of course, there was a souvenir shop with all kinds of sugar. We had lunch there and it was a little spendy in Mauritian standards.
Heather will post the pictures later. - Caroline