La Digue

We went to La Digue last weekend, which was pretty much one of the most amazing weekends ever. La Digue is the island where "the" beach is - you know the one that you always see photos of in calendars with the big granite rocks, white sand and palm trees? Yeah, we went there. It is about an hour ferry ride from Mahe, a group of 17 of us went there last weekend and spent two nights there.  The weekend was full of all of my favorite activities - hiking, biking, walking, swimming, drinking coconut water straight from the actual coconut, cold beers overlooking the incredible sunset, etc. Words can't do it justice, so just look at the pretty pictures instead, which still don't quite capture how amazing it really is. 

Holding a postcard of that exact same picture on Anse d'Argent, maybe I'll get around to mailing it soon

Anse Cocos beach

Attempting to leap into the air

Anse Cocos 

Biking to Anse D'Argent

Local boys, walking to school

Cemetary

View halfway through the hardest hike/scramble I've ever done

Our hiking "path" - over all those rocks to that sandy patch in the distance

Where we came from - that chunk of rocks way off in the distance. 

Ferry port in La Digue

Panorama from La Digue, looking at Praslin

The big rock we hiked to

Seychelles flag, on the ferry to La Digue

"The" beach

Which way? 

Tortoise! 

Renting bikes

Sunset from the second highest point on the island

view to both sides of the island from the very highest spot - 333 meters above sea level

Highest spot on the island