Saturday 23 October 2010

Mauritius Day 7

No more scuba diving for Phil.  To avoid decompression sickness, you need to have at least 12 hours between your last scuba dive and your next flight.

This morning we had a wake up call booked for 5.45 am, which was a huge shock for all of us, after enjoying many days of sleep ins.
We caught a shuttle bus down to Black River  (1 hour 15 minutes drive) for the day to swim with the dolphins.

We got on a boat, and headed out to search for some dolphins.  We found pods of spinners and bottle-nose dolphins and we were able to swim with them for quite awhile.  They were very happy for us to be near them, and seemed not to be afraid of aggressive.




The photo below shows just how close the dolphins got to us, the fin right near Phil's head.


After our swim and snorkel we got back in to the boat and headed to L'lle aus Benitiers, (a small island off the coast of Mauritius.  We had a wonderful lunch, and then spent the afternoon swimming, wandering around the lagoon and the kids spent their time making another sand castle empire.








It was a brilliant day, and we headed back to the hotel for an early dinner, and an early night

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