19/07/12 Living in Paradise
This week on Cap
Ternay has seen a lot of adventure and excitement. Three of our group embarked
on a challenging trek from Bel Ombre to our base on Cap Ternay, resulting in 9
hours of ‘Macheteing’ their way through the jungle on a reasonably unused track,
which along with amazing scenery and views, left them stranded on “secret
beach” resulting in a 40 minute swim round the corner back to base then back
again with surfboards and dry bags to pick up their gear. Seybrews were well
earned that Saturday night.
A snorkel
session with the younger kids from the Presidents Village was a joyous occasion
for all involved with the majority of the group ditching their snorkel’s in favor
of tows around Port Launay on boogie boards, floaty tubes and animals. Those
that chose to snorkel were delighted in finding numerous “damsel fish” and
“Indian red fin butterfly fish” Making the most of yet another beautiful sunny
Seychelles day. An exhausting yet rewarding afternoon for us GVI volunteers.
EFR training
wrapped up this week ending in a challenging yet largely rewarding mass
casualty scene which kept everyone on their toes and many laughs over the
nature of many of the injuries acted out by staff and other volunteers involved.
Testament to our brilliant first aid training no one died or suffered any
lasting injuries!
The animals have
kept up their side of the expedition as well with Whale sharks being spotted
and swum with by a lucky few divers, and a large collection of Gymnodoris ceylonica’s (a very beautiful looking Nudibranch) showing up in the bay keeping
all the macro lovers and snorkelers entertained during dives! That’s just a
taste of life on base this week, thanks for reading and G’day from GVI Mahe’.
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