Wednesday
Dear Elsie
Today was the day Teddy went to Mauritius! Last night there were very rough seas and rain and apparently a storm, but I heard nor felt any of it. We slept well and when we woke up this morning, we were quite close to Mauritius.
Soon, we were arriving…
We got off and went for the long walk to the town of Port Louis…
We also went to the market. It was busy and very smelly! I don’t think you would have liked it but I did buy a couple of things.
We stopped to have coffee and it was great to get off our feet.
What was much better was the museum.
When we walked in the door one of the first things we saw was this. It’s evidence of this amazing bird we’d never heard of. This is its egg! The egg on the right is an already enormous Ostrich egg. The one of the left is from the bird known as an Elephant Bird.
It is now extinct, but once lived on Madagascar. I’d never heard of it. The museum was really well laid out, clean and interesting….oh and free!
From there we started the 2km walk back to the ship. On the way we met a taxi driver called Daram. We have arranged for him to pick us up from the ship tomorrow and take us to some of the nice beaches. There were a few showers but not enough to make the day unpleasant. If anything it bought relief to what was a hot day.
The other thing that happened today is Google notified me of my travel map for November. It looks more impressive than usual.
And I’ve been quite a distance round the world in 2022.
And so ends Mauritius 2022 Day 1. Tomorrow, we will have different adventures with Daram.
Genesis 1:9-10
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂