As my classes seem to eternally be starting "next week," I've been spending my weekends at the beach home of my host Rotarian, Jean Yves and his family. Last weekend the weather was perfect. Saturday friends and family went to a beach on a small island off the coast called Ile aux Cerf. The island is a public beach that can only be visited by boat. The green mountains of Mauritius made the perfect backdrop to the soft white sand and the aqua water (which was not, as some of them believed, cold). The channel of water shown here was about waist deep, making it the perfect stroll through paradise.
Sunday we took the De Fleuriot's boat out and ended up in a small bay where we all took turns water skiing and wake boarding. I attempted to water ski for the first time since the age of 10 and, although I was incredibly sore the next day, I managed not to embarrass myself too much.
Here is the beach on the bay we were skiing. The helipad is for wealthy people coming to the hotel located to the right of the trees.
Jean Yves and Alexandre getting the boat ready.
While this is not the best picture of the series, it's better than most of the rest in which I look somewhere between seriously concerned and slightly terrified.
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