Marky Mark's Mauritius blog -Introduction - Blog 1

 Introduction to Mauritius

This blog is for interest only and will hopefully detail some of my time spent in Mauritius 😊 concentrating on the flora and fauna (biased towards birds 😊)

Flight took 11 hours and 50 minutes. 





Location

Mauritius is 1200 miles off the Southeast coast of Africa and 500 miles east of  Madagascar, one of a trio of islands, along with Rodrigues and Reunion, known as the Mascarenes. Shaped like a pear Mauritius 40 miles long and 30 miles wide. Its land area is 720.0 square miles.







I am staying with a school friend Karl in his rented villa in the Blue Bay. Blue Bay is in the south east corner of the island, the nearest town being Mahebourg. Planned visit is for 5 1/2 months where I have enrolled on an internship starting in late April for 3 months turtle monitoring and coral farming.

My place of residence which is a minutes walk to the local beach:-



A few visitors to the garden:-


                                                              Madagasgar Fody


                                                          Red-whiskered Bulbul 


                                                                   Zebra Dove


                                                                   Village Weaver

Birds seen so far in Mauritius

Madagascar Fody

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Madagascan dove

Zebra (Barred Ground) Dove

House Sparrow

Common Mynah 

Village Weaver 


Comments

  1. UnknownFebruary 16, 2022 at 3:57 AM

    Don't drink too many beers there. May not let you back

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  2. KarimaFebruary 16, 2022 at 12:44 PM

    Love the cool birds you can see just in your garden 🐦👍

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