Islands of the Andamand ISLANDS-our thoughts

Cinque Island one of the best. Lovely and with lots of LARGE fish.
Coral was dead and unfortunately we had no permit to go on land
which took a lot from the experience.



he locals fishing with spears for large speciments.

So on to another island to see if it was going to be better.
We also hadto move because of large swell which turned the boat
all night on heavy cycle

Ruthland Islans. No palms and it is not hard which way the wind blows
when it starts blowing in April.
Looks great from far and that is all we saw.
No permit to go on land. WHY

Cleaning day!
Everything gets so so dirty. Not sure why maybe aroplane emissions.

Early mornings look very dramatic with the most dramatic
sunrises.

Cinque South no palms again and no visits.
Hot days with possibility of crocodiles.

This place is known to have strong wind blows.

Havelock

Amazing mature trees

We took a drive on Havelock. It was so nice to step on land.
This is a typical house

Tinker buying some mangoes

A woman drying her grain

City centre getting ready for Holi festival when they throw coloured powder

Our driver showing us something that he chews on instead smoking.

Unfortunately when we got back to the boat from our first land touch down
 and trip we had a visit from Apsara and due to health issue they made
 a decission to return to Phuket ASAP. We decided to acompany them on the
 cross over. Anchors up and a 6 hour trip saw us arriving back at Port Blair at night.
overheated and tired

Typical terrain