Nosy Fainhi Day Trip
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 20 Sep 2019 23:47
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Nosy Fainhi Day Trip Aboard
Canace    We left Beez and climbed aboard
Canace at seven. Kevin and Irma very kindly
offered to take us on a day trip to Nosy Fainhi about
ten miles away. Baby Beez happily trotting along behind us as lures
were cast, bobbing expectantly. Everyone keen to catch a fish of any size.......
Irma set the anchor at ten and we got ready to
snorkel.
 A couple of tour boats were at this cute little uninhabited island, we set off to the
right.
 No sooner than we were in the water than we
were greeted by tribes of fish.
  A blue starfish
poses as did a Mr Picasso.
 Hundreds of thousands of comb jellies floated by as well as thousands upon thousands of
salps, most about eight inches long and pencil thin. We have seen them in the
water around Beez since we arrived in Madagascar but only in single
figures. We haven’t seen any since the huge one we saw in Indonesia - not very
amazing ??? I think they are fascinating, they have the power to change the
carbon levels in the ocean. Wiki says: A salp or salpa is a barrel-shaped,
planktic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its
gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the
animal kingdom. The salp strains the pumped water through its internal feeding
filters, feeding on phytoplankton. The picture is of a salp with red cells (most had black), the poor point and
shoot did its best.......
  A gang of
chromis and a very elderly starfish, almost no
colour left.
 Another gang passed
by.
  Blue-tipped
coral and a splash of colour.
   Usual
suspects.
 In deeper water just one clump of anemone with a single orange skunk
clownfish.
  A gaggle of
chromis going one way and convict tangs going
the other.
 Kevin and Irma
show just how many fish there were at any one time.
 Next came the black and
white damsels.
 Then everyone got
together for a conference, after an hour or so
we headed back to Canace. We
enjoyed a cocktail and lunch of Boer War sausages, potato salad and mixed salad.
The little island became host to a couple wanting very different wedding
pictures complete with tiny canopy, little camera didn’t do the event justice. A
cup of coffee and time to set off back to Sakatia. Whatever the reef here lacked
in colour and soft coral, it truly made up for in fish numbers. Very enjoyable
indeed.
  Kevin shows us his
impressive ewincher. Bear thoroughly enjoying
himself.
 Skipper checking the course.
 The sky began to turn pink. What incredible views these properties must have,
especially in stormy weather.
  Irma lets off the
genoa as Kevin winds it in after a smashing
sail with gusts to twenty knots. How super to have sailed back.
 Baby Beez
trots along behind, sadly the lures took no fish.
 Sepia tone for a
change. This little island reminded me of Christmas Pudding Island in
Opua, New Zealand.
  Rounding the southern
end of Sakatia Island and safely anchored just on sunset. Lovely colours, lovely day, lovely friends. No
sooner than we were back on Beez than Ken delivered two French sticks.
Marvellous.
ALL IN ALL A WONDERFUL DAY
OUT
A GREAT DAY
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