One of the very few sunrises that I awakened for while we were at sea - Indian Ocean between South Africa and Mauritius - 6:35 a.m. 10/07/05. It usually required coming into port to awaken me for sunrise. |
Chris teaching Dan a thing or two about "shooting" the sunset - I could use a few pointers myself. |
Sunrise as we approach the west side of the island of Mauritius. |
Byron, Amy, Beth, and Jason walking back to our apartments with a supply of drinks. |
Rico doing what Rico does best. You can't take him anywhere! Look for this boy in the next circus you attend. :o) Photo by Chris Bolin. |
Chris is quite excited about his prawns. |
Jason De Niro, um, I mean Liquori. |
Beth, Jason, and Amy leaving our apartments to spend some quality time bumper tubing and sleeping on the beach. Photo by Chris Bolin. |
Unlike the rest of us, Rico doesn't sleep on the beach, he does handstands and then snorkels out as far as the eye can see. |
Our view from the beach where we spent 2 relaxing days in Grand Baie (Bay), on the north part of the island of Mauritius. |
David, Byron, me, Jason L., Beth, Rico, and Jason V. playing in the water. I think this was one of the most fun days I've ever had at the beach. Good friends, a CRAZY bumper tube ride with 5 of us behind the boat, and the 3:1 male-to-female ratio wasn't so bad either. |
After we went waterskiing (my first time skiing on the ocean), Byron took a walk down the beach and photographed this cool shrine. |
Sunset, our second day on the beach in Grand Bay. |
Rico suiting up for our scuba dive on day 3. |
Rico petting a 10 ft. moray eel. |
My first scuba dive in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Grand Baie, Mauritius. |
Rico and me at the end of our dive. |
View from the top of a small hill in the southern part of Mauritius. |
A woman in the shrine offering a banana to a monkey. |
A woman and her child outside the shrine. |
Byron by a river. |
Rico, Amy, and Jason at some viewpoint at which our driver dropped us off. |
We knew that if we kept following the river downstream, eventually we'd hit a waterfall. We were right! Rico, Amy, and Jason's feet - as far as we could go. |
Don't worry mom, I didn't do anything stupid, ...but you get much better pictures when you hang over the edge of the cliff. |
More waterfalls at yet another viewpoint where our driver dropped us off. |
The coolest thing at the "7 Colors of the Earth" stop were these giant tortoises. |
7 Colors of the Earth - the big tourist stop in these parts. It sounded much cooler than it actually was. I could only pick out 5 or 6 different colors of sand/dirt/soil. |
