First landfall in the Indian Ocean

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Flag of Mauritius Mauritius, Mauritius
Monday, June 14, 2010

Mauritous gave us a great welcome. Sights we visited were a factory making model boats. These were not the standard ship in a bottle and it is anybody's guess how to take one back with you - hardly fit a suitcase and getting them through quarantine into Australia would be a nightmare. So we just admired them.

Next we visited an extinct volcano with the crator full of water moving on to a temple on a lake with large statues. By this time we had travelled north across the island on the only large road.

We travelled to a waterfall for lunch at a restaurant nearby. Here we saw the coloured sands and a pen full of giant tortoise. These were over 90 years old and produced a demonstration to two Australian ladies trying to refresh their minds and seemed to be taking notes

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Welcome band	Back at the ship	Distance shot of Volcano	View across the island
Volcano crator	Model ship factory	More model ships	More model ships
More model ships	Top of the range	Workshop	Mauritious
Hindu Icons	Close up of icon	Temple	Temple icons
Temple lake	Temple lake	More icons	Temple icons
Waterfall	Waterfall at restaurant for lunch	Restaurant for lunch	Coloured sands
90 year old giant tortoise	Australian ladies making notes	Sailaway deck party	Leaving Mauritious
Preparing for sail away	Manouvering around the dock	Getting up steam to head off to South Africa	Another cruise ship in port