La Reunion

French Only!Photo Copyright Bill Bennett 2010

So after a 26 hour flight with a 6 hour lay over in Paris we landed on the green and very tropical island of La Reunion. There is quite a dramatic coast here with dense forested cliffs that go right down to the coast. It’s a lot like Mauritius where I spent a couple of weeks refitting Intrepid a little over a year ago after being knocked around in an Indianan ocean storm and having my forestay and boom snapped.

Me, Last Year in Mauritius - 95 miles from La Reunion

So we got thru the mostly deserted airport and found our way to the hotel which is a couple miles away from where the ship Abby's on, the Osiris, will pull in. We are all jet lagged pretty bad as it's 11 hours different over here. Yesterday is kind of a blur but we looked around for a place to grab some lunch and it turns out that all the places close around 2 over here. We found a water park that was still open and descovered that very few people speak English over here. It's mainly French over here so I just pointed to something half way down the menu and got some beef thingy. It worked out well. Jeff's choice turned out to be a ham sandwhich with melted cheese on the top.

I turned in early but at around 3am over here my Cali time kicked in and I went to chill on the beach for a while. I really love nights in the tropics. It's always real warm and the full moon was amazing. So today we went down to the harbor and found the place where the Osiris will be arriving then got a bit lost with our out dated map that seems to only have half the roads on it. We're all set to see Abby and can't wait.

The sun has just gone down here and I'm being eaten alive by these tropical bugs so I'm gonna go in search of some Deet.

Cheers,
Zac