Bel Air Rivière Sèche

As Seb has convinced Satish to go fishing with us despite his back pain, we woke up at 5am in the morning to have some breakfast. We listened to our usual songbird who amused us with his singing until the neighbour on the other side of the river started his playlist again. Rajesh has told us that he was gifted a stereo music box for his birthday and all neighbors have given some money to it, so that he now wants everyone to enjoy the music with him. We really like his taste of very random music, so we enjoyed it as well up til 6am. We packed some water and food and went down to the river where we met Satish 15min later (Mauritian punctuality I guess). He had a good excuse though: He had waited for some snacks to be ready that he'd share with us on the boat. We climbed over sticks and stones to get to his little boat, which was rather dangerous as we only had put on our flip flops and crocs. We made it into the boat safely and started the journey in the direction of the waterfall. The tide was very low and we saw lots of stones that haven't been there yesterday, or at least haven't been visible. We found a spot and tied us to the trees. Then we prepared the fishing rots. However, not "normal" German fishing rots but rather a thick plastic line (around 2-3mm) wound around a plastic bottle. Seb and Satish tied some huge hooks on the plastic lines, put some kalamari and shrimps on it and threw them out in the water. Again and again, but nothing happened. "No fish around", Satish told us. Then a sudden rain showered from the skies and, hiding underneath a plastic cover, we decided to change the spot again. Now we've found a bunch of fish that had at least arm length. We threw out our plastic bottle rots again and not sooner after: the first bite for Seb. He fought and fought but the huge fish tricked him and got away, with him the hook with its bait. "You have to play more with the fish", Satish told us and I showed Seb how to do it with my first bite. Whenever the fish swam away, I let him his space and when he turned towards me, I pulled him closer until he landed in the net. A big Red Drummer he was. And after that, we had another 6 bites - 4 more catches, 2 more misses. In total we have caught 5 big Red Drummers and were super proud! As the tourist boats started to come now more and more, we decided to call it a day and ship back to the apartment. "You'll have your fish tonight?", Satish asked. We nodded enthusiastically. I nodded enthusiastically, although I'm a veggie and usually hate fish. But I would try that one!
After we parted ways with Satish and changed into clean clothes (fishermen get dirty a lot), we decided to explore the west coast a bit. But first, Seb wanted to visit the big hindu temple in Bel Air, the village next to G. R. S. E.
When we arrived though, nobody was there and everything was closed down. Seb was rather disappointed, but had the idea to ask the men working on the street next to it. One of the man explained, that we could just open the gate and at least look at the outside of the temple. That was good enough for us, so we went on to the ground. (Un)Fortunately, we just saw the sign prohibiting phones after leaving the premise again.Weiterlesen