Mauritius again

The only similarity between this trip and the one I did last year, is the stamp in my passport! This year I am in a different hotel, in a different town, working in a different place and on a different project. The only similarity is that one of the participants in this workshop was with me on the Nansis workshop - but he wasn't there much so I'm not really counting that as a similarity.

What a pleasure to have a direct flight from Durban to Mauritius yesterday. I really wish I had the same routing home but alas will have to go through  Jo'burg. For my father: the aircraft was an Airbus A319 - next time you can just believe me (ha ha). And the flight was directly over the ocean to Mauritius and we flew 2885km - more or less in three and a half hours. Anything else? Oh it was very bumpy and now I have to see the movie New Moon because we landed before the end of the movie and I need to know what happens!

The hotel I am staying at is okay but to access the wireless Internet that is supposedly in my room, I actually have to sit out in the corridor in line of sight with the transmitter. It is not the cosiests of places but there is no choice. I am staying in a town called Quartre Bornes which is inland so no photos of the sun over the sea on this part of the trip. It is convenient though because my contact in Mauritius lives in this town so he picks me up on his way to the research centre and drops me off in the afternoons so at least I don't have to worry about finding taxis.

The work today took forever to get underway. We had to wait for some of the participants to finish with another meeting first. It was frustrating because I know just how long the work is going to take everyone. This afternoon we did manage to identify all the fisheries though and entered one complete profile. It will go quickly once they get more familiar with the database.

Mauritius from the air - the green is sugar cane.


The view from my hotel room.

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