Posts From Seychelles

Another day at sea. I have not previously mentioned that on our days at sea the ship organizes presentations on topics generally related to a port we stop at. Todays presentation was about the war between the British and descendants of South Africas Dutch Settlers, there were two such wars and here are links to a wikipedia entry for each. First Boer War, and Second Boer War

Today was a very short visit to the Island of Mahé which is the largest of the 115 islands that make up the Seychelle Archapeligo and the country of Seychelles. As the first few photos below show we arrived in the port of Victoria at sunrise to find a mountainous island that was a spectacular contrast to the Maldives of a few days ago. A quick look around the port revealed that fishing is a major commercial activity. See photo 2 for the ocean fishing ship that passed by while we were docking.