This entry is one of love, romance and much more. I would like first to thank Jacqueline and Faith who made all this possible, you are both wonderful! Seychelles, this is a place of the wildest dreams. I've been waiting years to come here...right time, right place, right company. This is our first romantic holidays with Ma'ri...not that the one last month was not romantic...but this one is "us time"... The action place is a beach villa at the Banyan Tree...secluded place on Mahe Island. Our villa is amazing. We managed to go out the first day for a dream [View Full Entry]

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Hi I’m James, I’m 30 years old and from London. I arrived on the MCSS monitoring program just over a week a go. I don’t have much of a marine science background but have always been interested in the sea and am quite a keen scuba diver. This is my second time in the Seychelles this year as I also came in April and completed a ten week marine life conservation project with Global Vision International which is an NGO which carries out research on fish and coral species diversity and population in the area. I heard about MCSS on that [View Full Entry]

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July 25 - July 31 SEYCHELLES Following our relatively painless 4 hour flight from Johannesburg we arrived late evening in the Seychelles, a group of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean south of Dubai and between India and Africa. This is a complicated and expensive place to get to if you are not in the area and are coming just for a holiday in Seychelles. This is a very small country of about 84,000 people total. We are booked into the Le Meridien Barbarons for the next six nights for some relaxing in the sun. Sun ??? What is that ??? [View Full Entry]

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8th June - 20th June: Oh dear! the quick trip to the Pirates Arms for a couple of drinks turned into to an all dayer with all of us downing jugs of the local Seychellois beer. It was a pretty lively evening and in the end most of our group were there. We also met up with our park ranger Phillipe and his two lovely daughters while we were there. After a day of continual eating and drinking we finally dragged ourselves home at about midnight with the hangover from hell. In fact even as I write this now my head [View Full Entry]

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8th June: Well where to start on what I've been up to? A couple of weeks a go I went over to curiese island which is off of Praslin, four of us and a few staff went and it has a high population of indigenous giant turtles, about 150 apparently although I didn't count them personally - the humans on the island number roughly 10 though so they are pretty outnumbered. We stayed in a lovely little cottage right on the beach with a large veranda which you could just laze about on and watch the sunset each day. It was [View Full Entry]

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21st May - Hi all, a pretty quiet two weeks thankfully. We've been carrying on with some of the fish spots for the last couple of weeks and have also moved onto some of the scientific surveying which we are out here for. Basically involves recording all fish that pass by in a 7 metre sphere around the diver. Wednesday night last week we had a farewell meal for all of the five weekers who were leaving and had a delicious meal of barbeque fish and chicken - I ate very well that night :0) . We also had a party [View Full Entry]

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9th May: Hello managed to get back on a computer again today and a pretty eventful week it has been too. Firstly as previously mentioned there is a bit of a rat problem in our dorms and in light of this our health and safety director on base has setup "Rat Extermination Team Alpha" to try and combat the problem. This team of brave men and women were charged with dealing with the conquest of our bedrooms by the evil four legged rodents. Early results were promising and we managed to capture two rats, drown one rat and drew first blood [View Full Entry]

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I arrived on the 8th Apr and the first few days were very relaxing and had a great time chilling on the beach and doing a little swimming. We moved onto base on Fri 11th Apr and thats when the work started. There ae about 28 of us on camp and we've been doing a dive a day this week while also also studying the 150 different fish species that we have to learning in order to do the surveys. We've been doing a lot of cramming for the tests so far and I have been living breathing and even dreaming [View Full Entry]

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Seychelles has always been on my list of places to go since I did a report on the smallest member of the United Nations in 10th grade. These amazing islands were uninhabited until British ships began blockading slave ships from Eastern Africa and dropping the freed slaves on the islands that they call the Garden of Eden. There are also stories (truth and legend) that pirates left numerous buried treasures on the island... Though we didn't find any gold these islands did not disappoint. We arrived with no hotel plans - we found out that is a HUGE no, no in [View Full Entry]

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Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles We arrived at this much anticipated stop on Friday, the 25th of April. Our 9.5 hour excursion was right up there as one of my top picks since we were to board a small boat and head over to Praslin Island a World Heritage Site and often called the Garden of Eden. The first bit of bad news was that for the first time in the trip, we ran into rain. The second shocker we got when we down to the lounge to get our Trip Stickers and found out our Excursion had been cancelled because our small [View Full Entry]

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