In December 2001, we were cruising to Madagascar with the intention to meet our friends Brigitte and Louis to spend Christmas and New Year's eve with them. We met them in Nosy Be in 1999 and they just decided to stay there for some more years.
Our misfortune (see our article “Snapping shots”) didn't prevent us from enjoying first the fact of seeing each other again, then the long evenings discussing about the sea, of course, the best anchorages, the people we met and the chances we have to meet again in Asia or Alaska (who knows?).
To prevent any further misfortune, our friends of "Hüm" offered us to put "Minuit" alongside their saling boat for both of them to stay under the surveillance of their guardian.
We then cruised (or rather we motorsailed) to Mayotte to get a package which contained some memory for the computer and, over and above, some Côte d'Or chocolate, the famous Belgian chocolate we prefer.
We also took the time to spend some evenings with our friends from "Albatros": Pierre and Isabelle and their three sons due to go back to France in June 2002 with millions of souvenirs from their circumnavigation.
End of January 2002, we "moved on" to the Seychelles to stock up for our trip to the Chagos archipelago.
Without the presence of our best ally, the wind, we decided to stop at Cosmoledo (see the plan hereabove),
Known by the scientists for the thousands of birds nesting there from May to September, there is 7 islands in this 9-mile long atoll with millions of fishes.
There, we were surely "alone in the world", admiring the white beaches and the turquoise water breaking on the nearby reefs.
We spent 4 days well tucked in the atoll with a flat sea. We saw so many groupers that we didn't hesitate to take our brand new spear-gun to kill one.
Then, on our way to the Seychelles where we met our friends from "Havenga", then Olivier from "Eureka" and, last but not least, Franky and Nella, our Seychellois friends we met at Poivre island.
We will now have the privilege to cruise to the Chagos archipelago. Among these deserted islands, we can either decide to stay "alone in the world" or to meet other "yachties" to share some more information about the future anchorages in Asia, the places we already saw, the "yachties" we already met. We will discuss and, of course, organise partie since life should be ,first of all, a lot of fun.
The good news: we are able to download our digital photos on the new portable computer thanks to a search on internet we did here at the cybercafé.
In August 2002, we will update the site since we will then be in Asia where we will no doubt find an internet connexion again.
