The sun finally came out!

It's just after sunset and I am outside on the porch, overlooking the sea, which has been a jewel-like turquoise all day and is now a cloudy silvery-green, as the light fades from the sky. On the horizon, I can see the breakers crashing onto the coral reef that surrounds Mauritius. They create a distant hum of power yet closer to the shore, the sea gently laps onto the sand.

Yes, I know you're dying for photos (to punctuate all the flowery descriptions and give them a bit of substance) but I still haven't figured out how to transfer them from my Kodak pc software onto the blog. Patientez svp!

It was a beautiful day today, spent time doing real beach holiday things like lying in the sun and reading, then swam, then my cousin Shirley came to visit with her beautiful blue-eyed one year old.

We went for a sunset walk to Blue Bay (down the road from us) and walked on the promenade overlooking the beach, watched little groups of families shaking out towels and packing up their things; taxi drivers sitting in the shade having a cold beer and a lazy chat; a mother playing with her doll-like curly-haired Gypsy look-alike toddler girl who gave us a smile straight from heaven; and of course, the ubiquitous coral necklace sellers, who cruise past and give a laid back greeting and then, at the slightest polite response back, cruise on over and invite us to take a look at their 'boutique' (a collection of necklaces in a plastic bag). (Phew, that was a long sentence!)

Now it's time for a cold beer and some cashew nuts...
Tonight we're having oven-roasted fresh fish, caught yesterday (though not by us!)
La vie est belle...