Just some of the local inhabitants - a chameleon and a gecko
Bit of a sore head but after breakfast we spent the morning feeling out the gemstone situation. I've got good leads on material on the east coast, aquamarine, sphene and a reasonably new deposit of of green garnet, supposedly dematoid.
We have also arranged for some miners working a small sapphire field to the south to meet us on the main road tomorrow with what they have available. I wanted initially to go out to them but it involves quite a hike through the bush and time tomorrow is a problem.
After lunch its out to do a few tourist things. There is a nice national park to the south where its easy to see lemurs and there are a number of attractions around the harbour that are worth looking at. When I go to get my camera, my daughters actually, its missing. It could of gone walking when the police checked all my gear at Anbanja, I was keeping my eye on the money.
The harbour is very big and well under utilized, supposedly the biggest in the Indian Ocean.
Over dinner I hear that tourism has plunged from 500,000/year to less than 30,000 since the coup. The tour guides tell me that this is their first tour in 3 months and its now the hieght of the tourist season. Watched Australia draw in football and off to bed, we have a very early start at 6.30 tomorrow.
We have also arranged for some miners working a small sapphire field to the south to meet us on the main road tomorrow with what they have available. I wanted initially to go out to them but it involves quite a hike through the bush and time tomorrow is a problem.
After lunch its out to do a few tourist things. There is a nice national park to the south where its easy to see lemurs and there are a number of attractions around the harbour that are worth looking at. When I go to get my camera, my daughters actually, its missing. It could of gone walking when the police checked all my gear at Anbanja, I was keeping my eye on the money.
The harbour is very big and well under utilized, supposedly the biggest in the Indian Ocean.
Over dinner I hear that tourism has plunged from 500,000/year to less than 30,000 since the coup. The tour guides tell me that this is their first tour in 3 months and its now the hieght of the tourist season. Watched Australia draw in football and off to bed, we have a very early start at 6.30 tomorrow.
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