island - Tales of Tyre-racing, Makis and M'zungus.

29 avril 2013

Before coming to Mayotte...

Before coming to Mayotte, I didn't know that temperatures could be so constantly hot, never going lower than 27°C even at night. From the first rays of sunlight to the last, the temperature is between 28°C (dry season) and 34°C (rainy season), and it's...

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Tags: island, mayotte, temperature, colour, sun, skin, mosquito, tropical, nationality, paradise, sweat

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25 mars 2013

The North from East to West

When P was here, he wanted to see if his scooter still worked. As I hadn't gone anywhere near it for the past few months, it didn't start. P pulled bits of it out and put it all back together, gave it some petrol and kept trying, and it started a couple...

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Tags: island, mayotte, house, green, scooter, shop, beach, village, philip, bamboo, north, animal, building, concrete, corrugated, iron, mosque, sheep

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29 octobre 2012

Glass-bottomed boats make the world go round

There are several companies which offer boat trips in and around the lagoon, generally to see whales and dolphins. We'd heard of one which had a boat with a glass bottom, so we put our names down and took our friends out in that for the day. We went over...

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Tags: island, mayotte, water, whale, white, coral, reef, beach, boat, sand, aquarium, dolphin, glass

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4 juin 2012

Radio Tour de l'Île ! Infos, quizz, musique, fun !

Over the Pentecost week-end, a friend of ours was participating in the Tour de l'Île, a sailing boat tour of the larger of Mayotte's two islands. He told us that he does this every year, and that he usually ends up being the only one playing music on...

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Tags: island, mayotte, cat, food, water, emily, beach, boat, sea, pilao, philip, tour, knots, ropes, sailing

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26 mars 2012

Dziani Dzaha

One really nice thing about Mayotte is that the distances are short, so you don't need to travel for a long time to go anywhere. The beaches are very close to the towns. Our nearest beach can be reached on foot. It's not a terribly nice one, so we usually...

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Tags: island, mayotte, green, lagoon, water, walk, dziani, lake, buffalo, eye, petite terre, randonnée

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15 janvier 2012

Water, water everywhere...

I got a call the other day from a girl I’d met at a friend’s birthday party, asking me if I wanted to do something on Sunday. The search was on. She rang me back yesterday evening, having thought of going to the beach, renting a kayak, paddling round...

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Tags: indian ocean, island, water, emily, coral, diving, fish, mask, reef, camera, flippers, friend, kayak, swim

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27 septembre 2011

Whales

I went on a “whale safari” with a few colleagues last week. There are often whales and dolphins in the lagoon, but not this day, so we went right out of the lagoon and up to the north of the island. The trip itself took about an hour and a half by reinforced...

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Tags: indian ocean, island, mayotte, colleague, jaws, lagoon, safari, splash, water, whale

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26 septembre 2011

Birds and Beasts

The first animals we saw upon getting out of the plane were zebus. Cow-like four-legged creatures with a bump on the back of their neck where they store water and fat for later. They stared at us, we stared at them and wondered where on earth we had ended...

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Tags: island, mayotte, flat, banana, bat, gecko, hotel, margouillat, roussette, zebu

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10 août 2011

Numbers

Mayotte, Maoré or Jazirat al Mawet (the Island of Death - very reassuring) is the 101st French department, as from May 2011. It's a collection of several small islands in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar. Its total population is 209 530 mostly spread...

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Tags: department, dzaoudzi, flight, france, humidity, indian ocean, island, jazirat al mawet, mamoudzou, maoré, mayotte, temperature

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