Travelog post for: Vicky Mouseham

We chartered a boat to take us to Cousin Island this morning. It collected us at the beach and we had fun on the short way.

Coiusin is dedicated to the preservation of endemic and other native bird specias and also a place for sea turtles to lay their eggs at the beach. To keep rats and other carnivores off the island, the boats need to anchor a few hundred meters off-shore and visitors have to get on a tiny island boat that runs up on the shore.
The first birds we saw nisting were these noddies.

Here are two native lizards. Can you find them?

Some Aldabra Giant Tortoises were brought here and still live here, but now freely on the island instead of in a walled area.

We left the way we came: first the island boat from the beach, then changing boats on sea and back to Praslin at high speed: