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

10 mars 2014

The rain in Mamoudzou falls down, soaks the road and makes big potholes.

We're slowly getting towards the end of the rainy season. It's been raining pretty much every day, but not all day though, just an hour or two at a time. The rain has - as usual - dug gaping holes in the roads, it's a right mess. Some of the roads I take...

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Tags: mamoudzou, water, school, rain, sleep, rainy season, kids, language, chiconi, couch, excuse note, late note, umbrella, water water everywhere

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23 décembre 2013

Going Swimming At School

The rainy season in in full flow now. This is a short video taken by one of my colleagues at school, a day when 9.2mm of rain fell in two hours accompanied by a pounding thunderstorm that made the headmistress decide to cut off the school's electricity...

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Tags: water, kawéni, pupils, school, rain, students, rainy season, swimming, pool

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29 juillet 2013

Cascade

The Soulou Waterfall, on the west coast of Mayotte, is a place which is renowned for its thefts, break-ins and various attacks of all kinds. Unfortunately, it's also recognized as one of the most beautiful sites on the island. That's why, when a friend...

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Tags: mayotte, colleague, water, beach, friend, walk, group, soulou, cascade, waterfall

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8 avril 2013

Makis and Turtles

While P was here, we went down to the south of the island to one of the most beautiful (and most touristic, unfortunately) beaches in Mayotte: N'Gouja. Twice. The first time was during the school holidays, the second time was on the Monday when everybody...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, water, coral, beach, sand, sea, maki, swim, turtle, ngouja

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11 mars 2013

High tide and low fish

The other day, a friend of mine - Mireille, the one I went to the circus with - and I went to the beach. It wasn't a particularly fine day, and the tide was high, but we tried to go to the drop-off anyway and see what we could find. We didn't find very...

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Tags: water, light, coral, fish, mask, beach, flippers, swim, breath, cloud, metres, overcast, sakouli, sky

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11 février 2013

Going to the Circus

The Cirque de Paris has been in Mamoudzou for the last few weeks, and is staying until the 17th of February. The circus tent is planted in the main square of the capital city, with a large Coca-Cola tent in front and the market to the left. Behind is...

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Tags: mamoudzou, water, henna, family, show, mahorese, balance, circus, cirque de paris, clown, dove, elephant, expat, flag, hand, hoop, hula, joke, mireille, neighbour

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4 février 2013

It's a hard knock life.

Last Sunday, the music group (as always oh-so-elegantly named The Blue Mango) and I went to a barbecue on the beach, organized by the Bretons of Mayotte. An excuse to get together as much as anything, go swimming, have some fun and have something to eat....

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Tags: banana, breadfruit, food, papaya, water, mabawas, beach, bretons, music, kebab, dance, mahorese

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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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10 septembre 2012

Sea's out.

Last weekend, yet another beautiful day, how tiring ;). School has been back for three weeks, so like every other teacher on the island, we went to the beach. At low tide. Very low tide. So low that we could actually walk right up to the coral reef drop-off,...

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Tags: mayotte, water, school, emily, coral, fish, sea, philip, tide

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20 août 2012

M'lima Choungui

Last Sunday, we did a very touristy and rather stupid thing. We decided to go up the Mount Choungui, known as M'lima Choungui. We'd seen it plenty of times from a distance, we have friends who've gone up it, and it was starting to seem as though everybody...

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Tags: mayotte, food, water, root, choungui, friend, stones, down, mountain, up, view

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