Day 95 Tuesday April 18 La Digue, Seychelles

 Day 95Tues Apr 18, La Digue, Seychelles 8-4:00  TENDER

La Digue is a beautiful, tropical island.  If I won the lottery, I would come back and stay a while.

La Digue Highlights (LAD-001)

April 18, 2023

Port: La Digue

Tour Length: Half-Day (Approximately 3 hours)

Tour Description

Visit intriguing L’Union Estate and see a coconut factory, a traditional Creole house and oxcarts that evoke the island’s colonial past.

Appreciate La Digue’s white-sand beaches, recognized as some of the world’s most stunning.

Search for one of the island’s splendid endemic birds, the exotic Seychelles paradise flycatcher.

Experience the Old World beauty and charm of the Seychelles during an orientation tour of picturesque La Digue. Enjoy a scenic drive to L’Union Estate, where you’ll gain insight into La Digue’s history at the estate’s old Creole house and coconut factory, and delight in daily life characterized by a decidedly relaxed pace punctuated by bicycles. Continue to La Digue’s beaches, considered to be among the world’s finest, including nearby Anse Source D’Argent, which has been called a bather’s and photographer’s dream. You’ll thrill to the soft white sands and dramatic granite boulders that have long enchanted visitors to the island. Keep a sharp lookout for the resident avian wonders, as you might catch sight of a Seychelles paradise flycatcher, a rare bird endemic to these islands that sports glossy black plumage with elongated tail feathers.

Coconut refers to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut.  Coconut palms are a cultural icon of the tropics and grow in coastal tropical regions.  Residents are proud to let you know that every part of the coconut can be used.  The coconut tree provides food, fuel, cosmetics, folk medicine and building materials, among many other uses.  

                                                            Star Fruit

Processing the coconuts to get the coconut water.  

                                                Final product be strained above.

Vanilla plant.  It can be trained to run up and down and up again to facilitate                                                  picking the vanilla beans.

                                            The husks have been removed.

L’Union Estate, where we learned about  La Digue’s history at the estate’s old Creole house. 

                My guide speaking about the building where the coconut is roasted.  

These tortoises are between 13 and 15 years old.  The shell is still somewhat soft.  

                                            My guide cracking open the seed or fruit.

Baby tortoises.

Female has a smaller, rounder shell without markings on back.

                                                Visited this beautiful beach. La Digue’s beaches are considered to be among the world’s finest, including nearby Anse Source D’Argent, which has been called a bather’s and photographer’s dream.