Monday, our port of call was Devil's Island - the old French Penal colony in French Guiana. French Giana is on overseas department of France. There are 3 islands here which as a group is named Ilse du Salut, We visited Royal Island (Ile du Royal) which was the administrative center of the penal colony 1853-1953. Devil's Island was featured in the Papillon movies (1973 and 2017).
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| First light today |
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| First sight of the islands as we sailed closer. I had to look on both sides to see them all. This is the right (port) side |
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| On the left (starbord) side |
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| A bit of sunrise color |
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| A lighthouse on top of Royal Island |
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| Pilot coming out to meet us |
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| Where we will go ashore in the tenders |
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| Top of the church |
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| Once we stopped and anchored. They used the thrusters to keep the ship in position |
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| From the tender |
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| Tadpoles |
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| There was eithe steps or a longer path to get up onto the top level of the island |
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| A view of Devil's Island (Ile du Diable) |
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| Building where a famous prisoner - a falsely convicted of treason French Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus spent 11 years here before being exonerated. |
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| The water between the islands was shark infested |
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| An old warf |
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| The commandant's residence |
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| A couple of egrets and peahens |
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| A make peacock in full color |
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| Monkeys here also |
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| The death row cells |
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| There is a helicopter pad here |
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| The old lighthouse |
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| The hospltal |
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| An agouti which is a large rodent |
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| Near the end of the time ashore it started raining on and off |
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| Near the ship, hisdreds of birsd were feeding on food kicked up by the thrusters |
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| Raining the tenders back into position on the ship |
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| Sailing away from Devis's Island. We now sail 4 days east to the Cape Verde islands off the coast of Africa |
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